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I have been teaching my friend to knit, and he has finished his first project that is not a scarf.

Just needed to show it off because I’m very proud of him, and because he is very proud of the glove.

I love noodles. I used to eat plain noodles with butter and salt when I was little… mmmm. Oh, wait. These aren’t noodles. I’m so disappointed.

Here’s just a little bit more progress on the C. Black Roses. (A little picture for little progress.) I am using the yarn called for in the pattern, Hifa 2, which I bought in a kit from Nordic Fiber Arts. When you’re used to working with merino or alpaca yarn, this stuff doesn’t feel as soft and is not as inviting when you first touch it. But it is great to knit with, and the resulting fabric is quite pleasing, too.

This sweater will probably go relatively fast until I get to the main fair isle pattern near the top. Although “relatively fast” for me would probably be super slow for someone who uses both hands to knit colorwork patterns. I am a slow, right-handed knitter. I tried to teach myself to knit left-handed, as well, but gave up because it was just going to take me too long to feel as comfortable and be as quick as I am with my right at this point.

Right now, black roses don’t seem as appealing as these orange tulips. Yay spring.

When I said before that my list of projects I have started is embarrassingly long, I didn’t mean to say that I wasn’t willing to add to that list. Clearly, I have no problem starting new knitting projects. Clearly, I need to stop buying so much yarn.

I was waiting for the yarn I ordered to start these, and yes, they are the very same Norwegian Stockings Eunny and many many others have done this last year (I even picked the same color scheme as Eunny, because I love brown and blue together). I never thought I would knit a pair of socks, to be honest with you - I can’t imagine that I will knit too many pairs of them when all is said and done. But I have to try it at least once, and these are such stand-outs I can’t really resist.

Sleepy Bear

Pattern by: Debbie Bliss

Found in:Teddy Bears

Yarn: Knit Picks Merino Style in Petal and Nutmeg

Needles: Size US 2

Gauge: (Didn’t measure)

Here she is in all her sleepy cuteness. This was just as much fun to make as I thought it would be. It’s so cute I can’t really look at it anymore. She’ll be shipped off to some lucky person soon…

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Because I obviously don’t have enough to do already, I started yet another new project, Carpathian Black Roses. This is a sweater for my mom, specifically chosen for/by her.

It’s my first sweater from Norsk Strikkedesign, and so far it’s going well, but we’ll see what happens when I get to the steeks. I changed the pattern a little, eliminating the shaping because that’s how my mom wants it to fit. I also added steek stitches to the front center of the sweater - this is my first time doing steeks and although this yarn is really “sticky,” I am still too paranoid to cut the sweater with only one (ONE!) stitch for allowance on either side, as the pattern calls for.