What I Have Been Doing

Instead of knitting...

This past weekend I participated in my 6th 3 Day Breast Cancer Walk, my 4th as part of the All-Volunteer Crew. I lead a team of extraordinary women over a 4 day journey (can't forget Crew Training Day!) to help 1500 walkers raise over 4.3 Million Dollars for Susan G Komen for the Cure.

Here is my team from Pit Stop 2, every one of them a delight to work with!

I will be back knitting soon...

It's Growing

Very slowly...

I have about 7 1/2 inches of skirt done, need 13.... I think 10 or 11 might be enough.

What's Next?

I feel like I have been working on and blogging about the same 2 projects forever! I am trying to hold firm to my vow not to start anything new until I finish them, but I am getting antsy for new project ideas.

Anyone find a good pattern lately that they might like to do as a knit-a-long come August?

Round and Round and Round I Go

Making some progress on Charly's dress:


After a few failed attempts I got the skirt stitches picked up and now I am in seemingly endless rounds of Stockinette, 13 1/2 inches to be exact.

It is good for my other summer project, re-watching Lost from the beginning, as I can certainly work on this and watch TV at the same time, but it does get a little mind numbing at times.

I switch off and work on my Ivy Sock now and then to break up the monotony.

I am so tempted to start a new project for the novelty of it, but I am trying so hard to finish these 2 projects before embarking on anything new. That hasn't stopped me from looking at patterns though!

Skirt Stitches -- Picked Up!

Although I successfully picked up 132 stitches for the top of the Little Girl Dress, the 132 stitches for the skirt seemed to be causing me no end of difficulty.

Finally today I got them picked up and did the increase round (which was worded strangely -- and possibly wrong-- in the pattern).

So now it is smooth sailing in Stockinette for 13 inches before the finishing touches. Should make the birthday deadline with no problem!

Pictures soon!