Working On

I liked last weeks working on post so I thought I'd do one this week too.

BOOK - Wildacre by Phillipa Gregory. This is the first book in a trilogy. Started yesterday. I am 150 of 650 pages in. So much has happened so far it could almost be a book in itself. I can honestly say this is amoung the weirdest books I've ever read. I can say that having read the last book of the Twilight series too. I recommend this one as engaging reading, but buyer beware. She's got an interesting (flowing) writing style but the plot is kind of way out there and there is definitely incest and murder and tons of non-incestuous sex and gypsies (who foil murders with their second sight) and who knows what else when I get through the next 500 pages. I'm told that book three is totally and completely out there. We'll see when I get there.

CHICKEN - I need to trim him up a bit for I attach him to his greeting card, but for all intents and purposes this guy is done and you probably won't see him again. Isn't he cute though?

QUILT - The binding on the quilt is all of a quarter of the way done. This is slow going because I have to find time when the bulldogs are NOT around to work on it. I thought that it would be best to not get bulldog hair all over it. I figured I'd let my boss's dog contribute the hair on this one.

SHALOM - Finished and blocking. Well it will be blocking after I finish posting tonight. I still have quite a bit of that yarn left and I'm thinking I'll knit an even littler small sweater with that too. Its got to wait though until after I finish my current bit of the Brea Mod because they are using the same needle.

BREA MOD - Its half way and a little bit there. So far so good. The most I can say about this one is that I am not going to run out of yarn (I think). I really really like this pattern too. I need to find out if I have another needle this size, I'm not totally sure what size it is though.

SUNSHINE SCARF - Its gotten nowhere further then it was last week. Mostly because I didn't knit much this weekend except for what you saw on Sunday night of Shalom and about that much again of Shalom on Monday. This is very much a weekend project. The lace is pretty slippery on my circs so it doesn't go well with sitting on the floor playing fetch with bulldogs and I just don't like straights enough to switch.

KIILA - I've finished clue 4 on the first sock though I haven't bound off yet. I was slightly afraid that I'd bind off and cut the yarn and discover I didn't have enough for the second sock so I figured I should just wait until I'm sure they will both be the same size. I've never run out before though, so I don't know why I am so suspicious this time. After all these are somewhat short socks in the pattern.

WASHCLOTH - My car travel project for long red lights and sitting waiting for trains. Simple, simple washcloth with stocking stitch center and seed stitch border. Started yesterday afternoon on the way home from work while waiting for a commuter train to pass. I thought my car travel project was going to be those pumpkin spice socks from last week, but the yarn is so thin that I frogged them and put the yarn on my trade page. If you look very carefully this yarn is blue (actually a LOT bluer then it looks) and green. Yes BLUE. Its called Water's Edge and if you know me well that name has special meaning for me so I had to buy the skein regardless of the blue. Then again of course blue because its water. It was one of the first purchases I made on Etsy. Something like two years ago? So its been in the stash a while. Its the only cotton yarn I've knit with and its actually really nice and soft. I'm not letting myself work on anything else in the car so the blue yarn will get knit.

I picked my book yesterday night thinking that it didn't have any purple so I wasn't going to match my knitting projects. Ha. I defeated myself. I didn't even notice this until after I started this post because the book and the car knitting don't exactly go near each other since I don't read in the car.