Fuschia Knees

At present I have several skeins of yarn "cooking" upstairs.

1. Linie "Bingo" cotton yarn dyed in a light marigold color.
2. Four 50g skeins of a cotton/silk fingering weight yarn being dyed a dark blue.
3. Two 4 oz skeins of Purlie fat fingering weight yarn being dyed the aforementioned dark blue.
4. Eight 4 oz skeins of Louet Gems worsted being dyed in the Mardi Gras colorway.

I managed the spill some of the violet color from the Mardi Gras dye session and it went down the plastic sheeting against which my knee came to rest not seconds later. At first it was a spectacular purple splatter, but cleaning it up with Reduran caused it to subside to a kind of pink/red color.

Still Slogging Along on Projects

Projects on the New Year's List:

• Socks for Marky (need to do over)
• Socks for Deb (#1 near heel turn)
• Socks from Austermann Step yarn — Frogged and rewound
• Hoofle-Foofle Socks *Done • 1 Feb 2008*
• Cardigan *Done • 10 May 08*
• 8-3-5 Pullover for Marky (back done; front started)
• Scarf from bulky weight Silk Road *Done • 5 Jan 08*
• Scarf from 2 strands of Manos del Uraguay *Done • 10 Jan 08*
• Socks for Alice *Done • 5 Jan 08*
• Shrug for Mary (back panel done; working out pattern for sleeves)
• Baby Blanket for Jorge y Liliana (started)
• Socks for Joan (started)
• Swag Socks sample for String of Purls *2 samples done*
• Marjaana/Hermione pullover for myself — Frogged and rewound
• Scarf (non-wool) for I-Pie (started)

FO!! FO!! FO!!

I can cross off another item from my New Year’s Knitting Resolution list:  The dark blue-green cardigan is finished.  Well, I just found 2 more ends I have to weave in (about 5 minutes of work) and I won’t do the buttons (M will do them since it is to be her cardigan), but it’s effectively done.

The pattern is from Knitting Pure and Simple, Neck Down Cardigan for Women #9725.  I knit it with Debbie Bliss Merino Aran in a colorway called “Petrol” (why it’s called that I’ll never know), and it’s a superwash.  Unfortunately, I didn’t get gauge (what was I thinking by using Aran weight when it called for heavy worsted???), so it was smaller than I thought it would be, thus it is going to M.

Now I move on to a zillion other projects on the needles.

*sigh* I have more ideas than I have hands to knit them.