Leaving the orange for awhile.

The orange and purple dice bag is almost done!  There are still two more orange ones that I have embroidered but I'm going to wait on those until I have a few other colors done.  While working on the orange and purple bag, I was embroidering two new bags!

This is a shot grey taffeta that I've had for awhile.  It's a synthetic rather than silk so I'm excited to see how it works.  The embroidery seemed to go better so I'm thinking some red/black shot taffeta will be turned into a bag sooner rather than later.

Knitting break

I know I need to get that baby blanket done but it's been harder and harder to knit on it.  Not exactly sure why because I think it's fun to see the progress and it's not hard to knit but the enthusiasm has been lacking.

So when my parents were in town this past weekend, I had Dad try on a sock that has been done since September.  I thought I had the gauge all wrong and it was going to be too baggy so I didn't want to make the second one until I had the sizing figured out.  Well, Dad said it was good the way it was so I got started on the second sock.  I think this is just the break from that blanket that I needed.  It's been moving so fast!  The knitting on these isn't exactly normal so it's hard to say how far along I am but I think it's about a third of the way done in only two days!  (The pic is of the finished sock because the in progress one just looks weird and has needles sticking out all over.)

Baby blanket

This started off in plenty of time.  Found out that people were expecting and I got started immediately.  They didn't know if it was a boy or girl at the time but I really loved the dark blue and white and thought it was neutral enough that it wouldn't matter.

I've done colorwork before so I thought this wouldn't be a problem  Yeah, overconfident much?  Turns out that this was much more complicated and had crazy long floats that I had to figure out how to deal with.  After at least four false starts, I finally settled on a technique that gave good results and wasn't going to take years.  Of course, it took so long to not be frustrated and finish other projects that also needed to be done, that the baby has now been born and the blanket isn't even half done.

Oh well, I'm making pretty good progress now and I hope to have it done before we make the trip to meet the new little one.