I forgot to mention this was made with Lamb's Pride in the color raspberry, The photo color is just a little brighter than the actual color.

The pattern is from Knitter's Winter 2003. I really like the purse and might actually make one for myself, except I haven't had a purse this small in ages. I normally carry my wallet, 2 checkbooks, a bottle of aspirin, a calculator, a couple of pens, two sets of keys and who knows what else and if there's any room left I use it to carry my lunch to work.

The felted purse is finished, except I haven't sewn the button on yet. I wasn't sure about using this button, for my other purse I knitted a bobble and felted it for the button.



Now I have to get back to the baby blanket, the shower is next weekend and I still want to make a hat and some booties or socks.

We had a beautiful hazy, frosty sunrise this morning.


We live four miles west of Lake Huron and I think that influences the colorful sunrises.

The little felted purse is almost knitted, probably no pics until the weekend after it comes out of the washer.

My poor abandoned cabled turtleneck.


This is the second sleeve and once it is done I just have to sew all the pieces together and then knit the turtleneck. But alas, it may be a couple of weeks before I get back to it.

Now I'm abandoning my baby blanket to work on a felted purse. My son is coming home from college this weekend and I said I'd make a purse for his girlfriend. I need to get it done so he can take it back with him.

It's been awhile since I've had 3 projects going at once.

Where'd the weekend go?

I started a mindless project.


This is a baby blanket from the Knit Baby Blankets pattern book. It's simple but I think it will be cute when it's done. The pattern is all stockinette stitch, alternating colors every two row. Hopefully, I will have enough yarn leftover to make a hat and booties to go with it.

Happily, the tax season is starting to slow down to a normal pace. I read the article referenced on Nanette's blog regarding introverts. Now, I know why I'm exhausted at the end of the day--too many people wear me out!

I wish I had some knitting to report but I've been too busy at work. By the time I get home at night I'm too tired to work on cables. I think I need a mindless project. I did start the second sleeve on Sunday, but it doesn't look like I'll make my Valentine's Day deadline.

I spent Sunday afternoon listing a bunch of books and exercise videos on Amazon. I'll probably regret selling some of them. I've already sold two and have to take them to the post office this morning. You know a lot of people make money selling used books, not me, I buy books new and sell them when I'm done. Another reason not to own a yarn store.

Chip says don't be shy!

I finished the front of the cabled turtleneck which amazingly looks exactly like the back. Tonight, I might cast on for the second sleeve. I just might get this done on schedule.

I've been thinking about designing a vest that would incorporate the swatches of my multicolored roving yarn. Right now, I'm splitting the roving into strips and putting a little bit of a twist into it using my spinning wheel. Hopefully, that won't cause it to be skewed when knitted.

I see I have to fix my archives, that is a problem for another day.

Here's my entry for the ugliest yarn contest. This is from the multi-colored roving I dyed yesterday.

Take my word for it, it is much uglier in person.

As a single ply, the yarn was quite pretty, but plied, it looks horrid. I plied only a small portion because I didn't think I would like it.

Here I've taken the roving and split it into thin strips and knit it. I like this a lot better.


I might separate the plies and either ply it with a solid color, or ply it with the dark blue/green I dyed yesterday.
If I knit the roving into a scarf, I might use the ugly yarn for fringe, so for now I'm going to leave it as is.