I’ve been a busy girl!

So I have a big ol’ post for ya’ll. I have been busting my ass on several different projects the last few weeks. The main one of course has been the ADHD Knitting website that should be (fingers crossed!) launching soon! I can’t show you pictures of that, but I can show you the things I’ve been knitting on.

First of all, I got the flu a few weeks ago and while I was high on Nyquil and Sudafed I figured it was as good a time as any to learn to knit socks.

 

Behold! My first pair of socks!

 

They are far from perfect, but they are foot shaped and they are warm.

Now, keeping with this new found sock goodness..

Behold! My third sock! (no pair yet.)

 

They are made from some Noelle’s Noodles sock yarn, which is a ridiculously soft super wash merino in the colorway “Nightshade”.

 

If you look closely you will see that the cuff has little itty cables.

I finished that sock last night. However, in true random knitter fashion I immediately cast on this:

Instead of casting on a mate for the blue sock. I appear to have developed Second Sock Syndrome. I have no interest in knitting two of the same sock, I just want to keep trying out all my new gorgeous sock yarn. Like say this one:

This was hand dyed and hand spun for me by Kaitlen who is the brilliant fiber artist behind Brave New Whorled. It’s gorgeous super soft sock yarn that she spun with her own two hands! She’s so talented.

Speaking of talent, or in my case a lack thereof, Kaitlen attempted to show me how to spin yarn last night. Here is what I managed to produce:

Not so smooth and beautiful. But I suppose if I took it off the wheel I could technically knit it, and that is what makes yarn. I will try again, and again and again until I get good. I’m determined.

Anyway, I also finished knitting up this little sweater for baby Madison Baily who is due in April.

It still needs buttons, but I love it. It’s so soft, and super stretchy and it is the first thing I knit on my brand new Knit Picks Harmony Options needles. Obviously it needs to be blocked as well, but I’m very happy with it and I can’t wait to send it to Mommy Alyssa. I also have another sweater that I knit awhile ago as a test knit for ADHD that I think I will send her too, I still need to pick up stitches for the button band on that one, but it shouldn’t be too hard now that I have longer cables for my interchangeable needles.

 

And now just for kicks, here’s a picture of our impromptu knit night that we had last night. Though an unfortunate series of events we ended up being at Kaitlens house (which itself wasn’t unfortunate, just how we ended not being able to meet at either of the places we tried to go first.) So, we ended up at Kaitlens, which was great because I snapped this excellent photo of Laurel with Kaitlen’s rat Pork Chop trying to climb into her shirt. The smiling face next to her is the always vivacious Laura.

Okay! I think that catches us all up on what I’ve been up too. And now I’m going to find a snack and pick up that green sock again. Good night!

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