Finished Projects, New Project

Long Post so bear with me!

I finished my mom's felted bag today (it needed 24hours to dry) and I even got her to model it for me. Before:


After:


I also finished my bamboo shirt last night. Thank god. I have alpaca and was sick sick sick of bamboo. I'm really pleased on how it turned out and happy it fits. I even have leftover bamboo yarn that I have no clue what to do with.




I also started a triangle shawl from the book: Greetings from Knit Cafe. I'm using Prime alpaca in the color "nutmeg" beauteous! It'll be my project to work on when I get stuck on the soon to start Prime Alpaca pullover. I'm excited are you? Here's my shawl although I've since worked on it so it's larger that in the picture.


I also picked up the 4 tiny balls of alpaca from Yarn lady for a scarf in Moss Seed Stitch just to keep me busy. :)


Beautiful no?

Stash Be gone! Kinda.

Well I went to Yarn Lady today (after having to drive home from my fiancee's house at 4:30 am with a migraine due to contacts-driving in the daylight would have been so much worse). I dropped off my yarn and it came to a total of 7 pounds! (Or 6.5 if you want to get technical) Neat! So I bought (sue me) 4 small alpaca skeins (28bucks) to make a simple scarf out of and to reward myself (I'm big on that) for a donation well done.

I've got knitting class tonight where I'll finish my bamboo shirt so there will be pictures to come later! I want to start on my Alpaca sweater and a shawl in St-St just so I have something to make if I get stuck on the sweater. Wish me luck!

Bamboo Shirt...

...had to get ripped. About 6 inches worth because the lady who helped me misunderstood the directions. So my LYS ripped it back for me while having me work on the front of the shirt. Much less painful that way, for which I'm ever so grateful. Consequentiality, I haven't worked on the shirt since Monday and have instead worked on my mom's felted bag. Her color scheme is Lambs Pride Dynamite Blue, Winter Blue and Mulberry all worsted. I think I'll like the color choices better than mine...oh well I will survive.

I am super excited to work on my Alpaca sweater but I must wait. Wait wait wait. I'm close to finishing my bamboo shirt (just the sleeves and neckline (ok and back portion but that'll take 30 mins) to go) and Mother's Day is coming up soon-ish. Also with the while Irish yarn (I still don't know what it is fiber-wise) I really would love to make a shawl so we'll have to see how much I have of it. I also have the best idea I've ever had for my dad for x-mas but I'm waiting because A: no money and B: I NEED TO FINISH THE 2 PROJECTS BEFORE I START ANOTHER ONE! Yes, I must yell at myself from time to time. It's good for me. Wish me speedy knitting so I can move on. :)