the thing itself and not the myth

Oh man, it’s been ages. I finally uploaded a whole whack of pictures, though, so let’s get started. I’m going to do this in two parts, knitting & everything else. As usual, click through to Flickr to embiggen.

Knitting first! I’ve been spending WAY TOO MUCH MONEY on yarn these days. I am now not allowed to buy any more sock yarn in particular. Why, you might ask? I provide for you visual aids.

First up, three skeins of Socks that Rock, from Blue Moon Fiber Arts. Aw, man, now that I clicked through that page I see that their Raven series is up. I hope they still have Pallas Athena at Madrona in February.

Then last weekend there was a sale at Weaving Works. I scored some Jitterbug & some Claudia Handpainted. (I had expected to come back from that shelf with Koigu and surprised myself.)

Plus I joined the Yarn Sale group on Ravelry. BAD IDEA. Now I also have all of this Cherry Tree Hill. But it is pretty and lovely to knit with and was on sale! Ah well.

(More — including actual knitted items — after the jump)

Enabling all of this is the site where I spend pretty much all of my online time — Ravelry! And this week I got my Ravelry swag. Awesomesauce!

That said, I have done some actual knitting. My newest sock-in-progress is Kaylee, in Socks that Rock, currently modeled by my hand.

And, I’m participating in NaKniSweMo. That would be National Knit a Sweater Month. I’m knitting Alice. Here is the first sleeve. SO SOFT.

Even this largely-stockinette pattern is teaching me a lot about sweater knitting. Very cool!

And that’s it for now. Real life up later.

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