Look! I Can Knit! (Warning: long post!!)

Okay, I have been MIA for a while.  Between working full time (yes, I work in addition to the time spent at the store), running the yarn store (thank God I have Kaedean!) and my kids' activities, I have had little time for anything else.  Fortunately, we have lots of knitting groups and customers that like to spend their time knitting with us.  So, here is some of the knitting that I have been doing:

I have finally felted!  I knit Sophie, two of them actually.  The one pictured on the left is knit in Lorna's Laces Bullfrogs & Butterflies.  The color is Tuscany.  It was a really fun bag to knit, quick and easy.  Hence the reason I knit two.  The other one was knit in the same yarn, different color.  I used Somerset as I loved all of the pinks, blues, and greens.  I will have to post a picture of that one later .  I have been using it so it wasn't around when I took pictures. 

Soon to be felted is Pacific by Cultured Purl.  We had a knitalong for this purse in the shop.  I went for a different look:   I decided against the blues and greens that gave the purse it's name and went with colors that I wear all the time--pinks and black.  I used Cascade 220 in 3 colors: pink, black, and fuschia.  The purse is lots of fun to knit and choosing the colors was lots of fun.  We have been carrying Cultured Purl patterns in the shop and they are quite a hit. 

Since we decided to carry many of the Lorna's Laces yarns and I really wanted to try out Lion and Lamb, I decided to knit Clapotis.  I will be honest, the pattern was not exciting.  Lots and lots of stockinette.  But-dropping the stitches and seeing the end result was well worth it.  I used the Lakeview colorway and love how it turned out.  The colors are beautiful and the yarn is so soft and silky.  I would love to knit more items using this yarn!

I have one more finished item to show.  I also knit a poncho...a lacy poncho.  This is Easy Lace Poncho by Knitting Pure & Simple.  I knit it in Artyarns Ultramerino 6 color #110.  This was a fun pattern and very easy to knit.  I still need to block it, which I am hoping to do tonight or tomorrow.  I want to be able to wear it as the weather here has gotten cooler (okay, 84 degrees is cool after weeks of 95+).

Last update for today: Sockapal-2-za.  I am finally starting on these socks.  Yes, I know the deadline is tomorrow.  I think I will be late, don't you?  Anyway, going to try out Artyarns Ultramerino 4 in colorway 108.  The picture makes the yarn look more blue than purple, but it is a very beautiful purple with some pinks thrown in.  I did get a start on the socks and I am using a pattern out of Nancy Bush's book Knitting on the Road.  Great book with fun patterns.   I will post my progress on these later this week.  I should be completed by Sunday, so I will only be a few days late.

That's all for now.  I am knitting some other projects that I will post about later.  This is just turning out to be a realllllly long post.  Just proves that I need to post more often!