candy coated rose petals

I’m taking off to Vegas tomorrow for my company’s annual trade show. This will be my third year to the event. You can read all about last year’s travels in my Vegas Chronicles (day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5, day 6, day 7, day 8). Vegas is not my kind of town, so I’m not necessarily looking forward to the trip but it will be the result of a variety of projects I’ve been working on for the past three months.   [ Read more ]

The Chevron Scarf finished blocking last night so here it is as a head scarf (it’s too short to be worn as a regular scarf).

And here’s a closer shot.

And an even closer shot.

I really liked how this turned out. It’s a little shorter than I expected (even after blocking) but a nice length to tie around my head and not have a bunch of leftover dangling in the back. I also like how it pairs with my new glasses. I’ll have to try it when my hair is down and curly too, to see how that looks.   [ Read more ]

Projects have been flying off the needles lately, which is good as I gear up for a business trip to Las Vegas where I most likely won’t be getting much knitting done. The Chevron Scarf from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts was pretty quick to knit. You’re supposed to interchange two colorways of Koigu, but as I only had this colorway and another that I had two skeins for (perfect for socks), I chose to just use this one skein for the whole thing. I think it turned out pretty nice. It is currently blocking on my ironing board and we will see how it looks dry in the morning.   [ Read more ]

I finished my Simple Purple Socks today. I’m pretty glad I did because that keeps me on track with the stashdown 2009 challenge. These are a gift for a friend and I hope she likes them (and that they fit). It’s always difficult when you can’t have the wearer try them on. But I think they turned out nicely and I just have to get them off in the mail!

stash knit down 2009 total: 3 FOs

New glasses finally came in! I’m still waiting for my sunglasses (apparently they like hanging out in New York for a week) but I really like these. Everyone has complimented me on them.