My Almeara Gloves: FOs

They are finished - finally - and surprisingly warm. Must be the garter stitch on the palms and all that cabling on the tops. :-)

The cables don't show up very well on this photo [the best of several I took.] And I think this colorway is not the best for showing cables anyway. But, they match the scarf my Dear Friend from England sent me last year [or the year before? Sorry, J, I'm notoriously bad with details.] And that was my goal - to have gloves that went with the scarf - and at the same time make those gorgeous Jared Flood Almearas. See my previous post. And Jared's.

I Gotta Knit!

Traditionally we have had the week of (or before) Christmas off - depending on what day of the week it fell on. But, this year we're doing a "better business" model and were open M-T-W. So I took some vacation days last week to finalize my Christmas shopping, etc.

Today the freezing rain started about noon. Then the power for the whole complex went out at 1:15 and was off 30 min. I called security and asked if there was any chance we would be sent home early. Hmmm...learned that there was no one at work who had the authority to shut us down. ARGH!!

Only two of us in my dept worked this week - everyone else took vacation time. V. and I were each working in different areas of our building when someone came in and said, "Didn't you get the email - we've closed." DUH. No we weren't at our desks.... I verified that we were shut and then we were out of there!!

Icy drive home, but I got here safely. Gotta unwind with yarn!

Happy Christmas to all!!

Grand dog's new sweater

DD3 emailed this photo of Q, the grand dog, in the sweater she knit him. :-) Not sure how Q feels about it, but I think it looks great.

Blogoversary #3

I've really not done a good job on this blog lately. I'm still knitting, but not "active" in the blogging world. I used to have about 25 blogs bookmarked in my favorites and would read about half of them each morning with my first cup of coffee. But, haven't done that in a long time. And then, my computer crashed. Most of my files were recovered, but none of my favorites OR emails in Outlook. So, I'm slowly rebuilding my Blog Favorites. Sadly, I can't remember all of the names of the ones I liked to keep up with. Hey...I just remembered two more. I'll be back....

Got 'em saved. Whew!

So, yes, today marks 3 years since I started this blog. I've spent some time reading through the first few months worth of posts. Great reminders! I have never been a diarist, but this blog comes close to being one.

While I've been not blogging, I've done socks for the Grandsons. Sport actually asked for a pair! Yay! I took him to HL and showed him the available sock yarn. He picked out Yarn Bee's Walk Away in a black/grey/white multicolor. He's very happy with the socks :-) And several times while I was knitting them, I discussed why I didn't want him to wear them to the daddy's on the weekends. (My excuse was that they needed to be washed in a special way. They're supposed to be superwash, but this way I know they won't get lost, or misplaced down at the dad's.) He's helped me wash them in Woolite.

So Buster wanted a pair, too. I tried to steer him to the variegated blues, but he selected Kroy Sock in Fern Rose Jacquard. The colorway is definitely Buster - busy, bright, fun.

I'll try to get photos of the boys socks one of these days soon. For now - they loved playing in the first snow of the season!

Finished a pair for myself a few days ago:

Pattern: Sunday Swing by Kristel Nyberg in the Knitty.com Summer09 issue.

Yarn: Malabrigo Sock in "Stonechat" -- however, all of the photos I've seen online for Stonechat are not even close to the color of my yarn. This looks much darker in person. However, this colorway is Perfect for my work wardrobe.

Needles: Two 24" Size 1 [us]/2.25mm circulars

Knit for: Me!

I'm Baackk!

And with a new computer. The old one was terminal, and I knew it. When it finally died, I didn't want to spend the $ to get a new one. But, it's difficult to carry on a "normal" life without a computer. So, here I am with a super fast HP Pavilion. Pages load in a snap - and I mean snap!

When I logged onto my computer at work on Thursday and it took all of 5 seconds to load my desktop, I was starting to feel impatient after 3 seconds.

Windows 7. I'm liking it, too. 20" flat screen monitor...takes a bit of getting used to. But... watching tv (hulu.com) or movies is awesome on it. :-)

I've done some knitting. Will report on that next time. Still need to get photos of the grandsons with their socks on. They were not co-operating when I tried last week.

More to come.... later.