Knit Night!

So, I finically finished my Firefly socks and they are very beautiful!  I will never be making another pair, so these babies better last forever! 

I started 3 projects yesterday, since all of my other projects were complete.  I'm very proud of myself for going 12 hours without any works on my needles.  And then, I go all crazy and start 3.  I'm going to confess something...  I frogged the bridger cowl.  It was too small.  And I was so happy that it was too small so I can make a shawl out of that beautiful yarn.

These two skeins are my newest socks.  Russian Rainbow and Spring Forward.  They are utterly fabulous so far.  I'll show pictures in my next post when I can take the picture outside...  The rainbow socks are self striping so I'm making plain socks.  The Spring Forward pattern is kind of swirly and I'm using Destination Yarns "Cleveland Spring" colorway.  Yay for Cleveland socks!!

Since the break up with my BFF, I've been struggling with myself.  Questioning why I can't seem to make GOOD friends-- why they always seem to put unrealistic expectations on me. Andrew says it's because I have nothing in common with them.  He's right--he generally is.  He told me to go out and make new friends--but not at the yarn store.  Ha!  Where else to make good friends?  With people I have something in common with!  I know he said that because he didn't want me buying yarn because when I told him I was going he was cool with it. "Get out of that little room and go meet people!" So tonight, I drove to Lakewood and plopped myself down at the community knitting table at my LYS and knit for 2 hours with some nice ladies. And next week, I'm going again.  (The hardest part was the initial meeting and hoping they would like me,  Laura said, "How could you not be nice?  You knit!"

Summer is Here

Summer means extra time for all the things I didn't get to while I was busy working.  So, I've been reading a lot, sleeping a lot, cleaning a little, and knitting.

I'm doing stash dash again this year as I mentioned before.  My current total is 555 yards.

These socks brought me up to 454 yards this morning.

The firefly sock I just finished brings me to 555 yards.

Today I cast on another Kroy sock and tomorrow I'm casting on my Lollipop yarns socks.  I know I won't reach my goal, but I'm putting a serious dent in my sock yarn and my sock bin is FULL.  I'm up to sock number 25 for the year and 15 pairs total for all time.  Can't wait to get through this stash so I can buy more!!

A few nights ago I attended graduation for my seniors.  As I was leaving a Public Auditorium I looked up and realized that Cleveland is truly beautiful up close.  Gonna try to get downtown more often this Summer and take advantage of the open spaces to knit and read!

I Smell Summer

One of the best parts of teaching is (obviously) summer vacation. On Friday, I will be released into the wild for 9 weeks.  I usually have a plan in place, but this year I'm in limbo.  I am not doing camp loopy this year because it was aggravating last year.  And expensive.  So this year, I'm only doing the Stash Dash 5K. 5468 yards knitted in 10 weeks.  That works out to 22 pairs of socks.  I better get moving!!

Here's my Yarnbox yarn for May. It is from Cherry Tree Hill and it is called Cider House.  820 yards of loveliness.  I may need a shawl out of this....

Here's my latest pair of socks half finished.  These came together pretty quick.  Probably because I love rainbows and skinny stripes.

And here is my first pair of cabled socks coming along quite nicely.  They are called Firefly and the pattern is from the book Knitters Book of Socks. I originally used a pair of needles that were sharp.  I thought that would be good for this pattern. But I found I hated working on them because my fingertips hurt.  Friday, I got a new pair of Addi Turbos and since then these socks have been flying!  I turned the heel tonight and have a good portion of the foot going.  These are going to look awesome!!

And as an added bonus, Netflix released season 2 of Longmire yesterday so I've been enjoying some one on one time with Walt.  😍

11 Days

11 school days left.  Eleven. 11. E-LEVEN.  I'm pretty happy.😜

So on May 31, I'll be free to do whatever I want--within reason.

As for now, I'm working on 2 more pairs of socks.  The ones below are another pair of Paton's Kroy Socks in Mean Green Stripes.  Compared to the last pair I did, this yarn is so soft.  I'm loving working on them.

This pair is out of Madelinetosh Sock in Kelp.  The pattern is Firefly in the Knitter's Book of Socks.  Some cable action going on in these.  I'm wondering if I should have picked a lighter color yarn so the cables would show more.  Perhaps the farther I get, the better they'll look.

And most importantly it was 91 degrees today and I had no air conditioning in my classroom.  And no windows to open.  And kids with coats on complaining about how hot they were. (Eye roll) And I have a painful rash under each eye 😳 from the heat and humidity that I can't get any relief from for the 8 hours I'm working. Let's just say I'm glad to be home with the air on and my clothes off (not completely, but I sure couldn't wear this outfit to work).  

And I turn 42 Friday.  (Sigh)