Noolie Knits

Wednesday Night Bullet Post

It's that time again; time for the randomness of a WNBP.  Let's just get right to it, shall we?

• Remember the sweater my friend Mary made for her great-nephew?  Well, to everyone's surprise, she actually got it packaged up and mailed before he graduated from high school (just teasing ya, Mary).  Check out how handsome the little guy looks in it.

What a doll!
 

• More kids in knits:  my great-niece, Ella, and great-nephew, Colin, in the sweaters I made them for Christmas.  Aren't they just the cutest kids?  I'm so happy that the sweaters fit them so well and yet there is enough room in them that they should still be able to wear them for at least the beginning of next winter.

• The wrap I'm knitting as a booth sample for Lark is almost finished.  Just a couple inches left, a picot edge on each end, a trip to the blocking board, and I'm done.  No progress picture yet, it looks just like the last picture only longer. 

• I've really got mixed feelings about finishing this.  On the one hand, I can't wait to see how it looks after it's blocked.  On the other hand, I'm going to be really sad to package it up and mail it off.  But, I'm really happy with my work on this project and I hope Lark will be happy that she chose me to knit it for her.

• I have enough of the Luminesence yarn in the color Redwood to knit one for myself, and that's exactly what I plan to do.  I'm thinking I'll wait until either late summer or early fall, though.  Can't knit the same pattern two times in a row.  It's a rule.  I wouldn't want to become known as a rule breaker ;-)

• Last night was Chicks with Sticks night, which requires a mindless project (at least for me).  I brought the crochet shawl I showed you yesterday and managed to add a couple of inches to it. 

• Weight Watcher's is still going well, for both myself and Samm.  I'm down 20.8 pounds!  I'm kind of surprised at how fast the weight is coming off this time around.  I'm not complaining though.

• Speaking of weight, when is it ever appropriate for a coworker to tell you that you were "not at your sexiest when you were at your thinnest" and then go on to say "you kind of started to look like a boy"?  Yep, you read that right, and yes, it was a male coworker.  How do you respond to that?

And the most important "bullet" of this WNBP:

• Please send lots of good thoughts hubby's way tomorrow.  He has an interview for a dispatcher's position at a nearby police station.  This is just the second step in the hiring process; he had to take a test about a month ago, and if he does well in the interview tomorrow, there will still be a background check and a lie detector test.  It's quite a lengthy process.

 

My First Shawl

But definitely not my last!  This is a crochet shawl, which took me one week to complete.  An easy, yet beautiful pattern.  I used about 460 yards of Jojoland Melody yarn (yarn I received in a trade with Tempe).  The pattern is "My Blue Jeans Shawl".  Enough talk, how about some pictures?

       

A couple pre-blocking:

 

I was amazed at how much I was able to stretch this shawl to block it; at first I was a bit nervous, but then figured "Ah, what the hell; I'm gonna stretch this sucker as much as I can."  I wanted it open and lacy after all. I'm so very happy with this.  I see another of these in my future; the only change I will make for the next one is that I'll make it a bit bigger.

So, what's next you ask?  Well, I just happened to receive a package I was expecting from Lark in yesterday's mail.  I'm going to knit a sample for her of Cheryl's Diamond Illusions Wrap.  I'm so psyched to get started on this; it's gorgeous and the yarn from Lark is, of course, scrumptious.  I'm hoping to do a gauge swatch in the morning; I think this is just the motivation I need to drag my ass out of bed early like I used to, and knit before work.  There is no better way to start the day and I have been sorely missing that time.

I have so much more to catch you up on, but I think I'll try to do it in a couple of posts throughout the week.

Have a great one!