Hello Once Again...

Ok so here I am back once again to this somewhat familiar place of bloggington. I visited once before. It was only a short trip though, didn’t get to do much sight seeing. Ok I admit it, I almost killed my blog. I didn’t mean to it just kinda happened. And if you promise not to tell anyone I’ll tell you the truth…I kinda saw it coming. Hell I knew it was coming before I even started. Want to hear another secret, I almost didn’t even come back, I was seriously considering just starting a new one. It’s like when to see starving puppy on TV and you almost have to look away. Well I didn’t even want to face the fact that I had completely forgot to love my blog and feed him and call him Hal.

Actually the real reason he is now near death is that I put down my needles for almost an entire…gasp…year. But now I’m back and going to keep it up. I’m really enjoying it this time. I don’t know that I didn’t before, but I really really am now. And yes that white baby blanket down there is still on my needles not yet finished, actually its just a few rows past where it was when I posted the pic. It’s about half finished I started it again but screwed it up somewhere so I need to frog a couple rows then I’ll be back whizzing away…

I have however tried my hand at a Booga Bag. It’s almost finished, just waiting on the set of dpn’s I ordered so I can make the i-cord, then felting then, I’ll be done. I used Lion Brand Wool Works instead of Noro though. It was my first project back after my absence and I didn’t want to invest in Noro to only have it still hanging off my 10 ½ circs next Christmas. After I finished the booga bag I started Baby Tart, of which I absolutely fell in love with even though I have no children to knit it for. I know a baby blanket and a baby tart and no child, I can only explain it by saying I’m strange. And no I’m not giving away that baby blanket I’m putting it up for my kid one day, the baby tart I am considering gifting it my SIL who’s preggers. So I am in the middle of it. I have the crust all finished just working on the filing that I’ve frogged for the second time today thank you very much. I’ve got it turned the right way and stitch markers now so I think I’m on the right track. Here it is so far. I’ve only gotten back up to the first purl row after starting the filing. Oh and don’t look at the bind-off edge (how exactly would you say that, bound off edge, binding edge hmmm?). I’m thinking I was supposed to do a different type of bind off, only I only thought of that after I had already finished this one and cut the yarn, oh well…..