Ah, so it's been far too long between posts. For me, school's back in session and my week is pretty much packed with school work and ballet class. For the time that I do have for knitting, I've been spending it on ravelry.com adding more and more projects to my queue.
Here's a quick update:
Lelah is still going strong, but the cooler weather plus my slow knitting has resulted in not much progress. I finished the first skein and am still on the lace part. I'm doing 12 repeats of 6 rows and only have 5 repeats left. After that it's just a bunch of stockingette stitch with decreases. I also want to add straps but have been unsatisfied with the examples that I've seen. Most straps are too thin and the other's have severe rolling issues that require crab stitching around the edges and extreme steaming to get them to lay somewhat flat. I've been toying with the idea of doing the straps in single or double moss stitch. I'm concerned that it'll look too busy.
Socktober Fest!
Nancy and I have started on Monkey for our Socktober Fest. We bought yarn, swatched, figured our yarn was definitely too thick for the socks. I'm buying new yarn today so that I can get a good start on them this weekend.
I'm also thinking ahead for Christmas. I learned my lesson last time not to knit people things for gifts, but I have two things that I should get done: a camo hat for Dad (b/c honestly, what else am I going to use that yarn for), and a earwarmer for Mom to match her scarf.
