What's on my needles

Bird's eye view of knitting

This chair is one of my favorite places to knit lately.  It is easy to hunker down in it and spread out any charts/directions on the arms of the chair.  I also like that I can brace my left arm against the armrest, which helps with my knitting.  That basically means that it help supports my arm so that it doesn't get tired!  Ha!  Is that lame?  I've often thought that maybe I should work on some muscle building so that my arm doesn't get sore, but then I just brace my arm against the armrest and forget I ever thought of it. If you look carefully at the picture you can also see the cat sitting in front of the chair.  I've been battling him all day for this chair.  The moment I leave it, he jumps right in and goes to sleep until I return and boot him out.

These are one of two pairs of socks I'm currently working on, these are the sweetheart socks in the latest issue of Knitty.  I've never been much of a sock knitter nor have had any desire to knit socks, but our recent move to the south has really changed how I view sock knitting.  The other socks I'm working are Mr. Pitt's socks, which you can find the pattern for on ravelry.  For Mr. Pitt's socks, I already have one sock completed and almost nearly the second sock completed.  For the sweetheart socks, I'm currently on sock 1 of 2.  I should have had Mr. Pitt's socks done by now, but taking the Design Your Own Shawl class really derailed those and I've only been working on them during my knitting group since they are a great travel project.

I also have on-going the gap-tastic-cowl, the shawl I designed, and some sewing to do on a sun hat (sewing on I-cord, that is).  Right now I'm mostly focused on the shawl and the sweetheart socks.  I am really loving knitting the sweetheart socks and will post soon my notes on the socks so far.  I have a bunch of notes on ravelry and on paper, but it couldn't hurt to post them here.  These socks involved a bunch of new skills for me.  I have never done toe up socks or an afterthought heel or magic loop!  I think that is what is keeping my interest in these socks.  They have really challenged me and I am definitely enjoying it.  The socks are really fun to knit and the pattern is written well.

Right now that puts me at 4ish on going projects (let's not count the hat for now).  I am pushing myself to finish up the shawl by Friday, though I forgot how close Friday actually was!  Should have checked a calendar on that one.  I'm also going to be writing the pattern up for that in the next couple of days.  Once I've decided what I'm going to do with the shawl/pattern, I will post more information about it; but for now I want to keep quiet about it.

And that is what is on my needles.