What day is it? Is that the sun shining? Where am I?

Lots of questions, no?

Well, February is half over, yet the heater still burns in South Texas and I am cold all the time, but winter will eventually end, I hope.

There has been a great deal of knitting going on, but not much to show for it.

First up, the Pumpkin Cheesecake scarf/wrap is inching along:

 

Had to get the sunshine in there, but here is a close up to show the true colors:

 

 

One and a half skeins in and I am half-way there, just in time for Spring, no less.

While Woolgirl is closing her shop, she will continue to provide kits and maintain her wonderful yarn clubs.  She even had a couple of test knits for me, that are still super secret and I cannot share, but one of these days, I will be able to show you.

The Madelinetosh Vintage in Mirth and I have been going at it again.  I have knit and frog one whole skein of it about four times.  I thought I had finally matched it to a perfect pattern, but two skeins into it, I think this, too, is destined for the frog pond, dammit.

 

In fact, I have been a bit frog happy around here.  I had some WIPs languishing about and decided I was no longer in love, so I ripped out and re-skeined a whole bunch of things, not that I had other projects in mind for the yarn, I was just tired of the partially worked items lying around and mocking me.  Now they simply mock from the stash closet.  Unfortunately, I can still hear them, snickering in the darkness, high on their little cedar fumes.

Could it be a bit of knitting burn-out?

Say it isn't so...

Be Mine

Today we had a knit-in at Yarntopia (the local knitting supply store). Some may think this is rather silly, but we made Valentine washcloths adding a 'secret' heart pattern.

You have to turn the cloth at an angle to see the heart, so getting a picture was rather difficult!





You can find the free pattern here.

(You can blame Feisty for releasing the knitting addict I had hidden deep inside me!! *L*)

She Likes It!

All righty then, my first hat is history!! From the look on her face, my model totally loves the new look,,,

I can tell you that my next hat will not be done with double pointed needles!

Black Cherry Raglan

So much for predictions.

This jacket turned raglan is short two sleeves from being complete.

 The good news?

I absolutely love the color combination made with the two skeins of sock yarn.

The feel and weight of the knitted garment is wonderful!

The fit in the body is fine.

Converting the jacket into a pullover is fine.

In fact, I think I did a great job of joining the lapels seamlessly and continuing the seed stitch (or moss stitch, if you prefer) down the center of the garment.

The bad news:

Raglans really are not my thing.

Fitted sleeves are really more attractive on me.

The down side to knitting top-down raglan construction if you are wide through the shoulders and full through the chest, in order to get the item to fit through the body, the sleeves increase in size to the extent the sleeves become HUGE in circumference, even after I went down a needle size and immediately began decreasing.

End result:  The frog pond is imminent.

However, I so love the yarn and the yarn combination, I will be soon casting on for something else.

More good news?

I have given myself a 60-day challenge to not only improve my eating habits (as well as the family's), but I have also been incorporating a solid half an hour of exercise into my daily routine.  Diet cokes have been kicked to the curb, too.

In less than a week, I have already lost five pounds (mostly water, I admit).  My self-appointed weigh-in days are Fridays.

Do not be surprised if some recipes start cropping up over here, as I try new things.