A Plethora of Projects

Time for a real, honest to goodness update!

I’ve been pretty busy lately.

Finished my first PAIR of socks ever!  Kai-Mei, in Malabrigo sock yarn in Archangel.

It was pretty lucky I even finished these at all.  When I was on the very last inch of the toe, my dumb puppy (as I affectionately refer to her) snagged a needle out and chewed it to bits.  I’m not sure how it happened, but LUCKILY the set came with 5 needles, and I usually only use 4.  Hooray!

I had aMerry Christmas with my families – and got a couple really amazing Christmas gifts.  My mom gave me her old serger, and Matt’s parents got me a Knitpicks Options interchangeable needle set.  Which I highly recommend, by the way.

Matt, of course.

Nessa, queen of ugly sweaters.

Alanna, who opted not to wear her ugly sweater.  I can’t figure out why.

AJ, who is always just SO thrilled to be hanging out with the family.

Puppers, duh!

(these pictures depict the majority of my siblings- all but one; Samantha.  For some reason I have NO pictures of her from Christmas??  Sorry Sam.  She’s actually in Jamaica right now doing missions work.  Yay Sam!)

I’ve been experimenting with screenprinting:

I made shirts for all the gals on our roller derby team.  A team which I, unfortunately, will not be able to skate with until my dumb torn hamstring heals.  Blah.

Making some jewelery:

Working on some new projects to list in my etsy shop (which is sadly empty right now)

Messing around with Crayola watercolors.  I don’t claim to be a painter at all; I just decided to paint in some doodles I made at work.  I like it:

Knitting Citron from knitty with some of my handspun:

Actually crocheting something for the first time in years- a series of hexagon granny squares (from Attic24) in a variety of brightly colored wools.  If I can muster up an afghan, it is going in my living room – they are similar colors to what I already have.

Annnnnd last but not least, abstractly painting for my wall.

Sooooo, as I mentioned before, one of my goals for this year is actually posting more regularly.  I set up some office space in my living room for my computer and camera and all that stuff, so I should have no excuse.  Now if only I could get some more followers!
(Speaking of following, you can follow me on twitter now, too!  )