New life to be launching soon!

Well…imagine that—life happened! Among the life happening was more job interviews, getting a job at Regents Academy in Nacogdoches, several trips down to scope out apartments, observe, and get to know the school and town a little bit, sending my laptop in for service that took MUCH longer than anticipated, holding down the fort while the parents took a two week road trip, and lots of time teaching my brother’s girlfriend how to drive. As of this week I now have my apartment decided on and sorted out, so now it's just thinking through the logistics of moving the stuff I already have and figuring out the most cost/time effective way to get what I need.

There has been knitting of various kinds; the big project through most of April was the Mother’s Day sock commission for a friend of my brothers. I made a pair of Rib is the New Vanilla socks in a lovely petite size 7, as well as an Evenstar bookmark. I enjoyed the making of these items, and it made for good Easter knitting while family was visiting.

I also finished mending my sister’s socks, and once Stash Dash started last week I finished the toe of the first McGonagal sock and started the second. Here is the first shortly after the heel was complete. A note on the Rib is the New Vanilla heel—don’t try and be smart and figure out the ‘flaw’ in the centering of the heel. The designer is right, just do what she says!

While waiting for my sister to get her big sunflower tattoo I knit this soap sack for my lovely new handmade soap—matching dishcloth to follow shortly.

I also finally finished off all those knit towel toppers I've been working on over the last few months. I decided to do the Valentine's ones next year, but I have several to use as gifts as well as a few for my new place. I even got all the buttons on!

For my birthday I started a scarf/cowl using up some deeeep stash (Knitpicks Shimmer—long gone!), but am too lazy to take a picture of the boring looking little big of garter tube that is the first ruffle. Next week maybe!

In addition to knitting, I have been working on some sewing projects too this May. I made several project bags-some as gifts and some for me. I lovethis particular project bag tutorial, and have found it pretty easy to mess with the sizes based on zipper length.

I also started an epic stitching project—mostly back with a few cross stitches. I’ll post an update next week, but here is the outlines of the future Thorin’s map. Loving it! I’ve never used evenweave before, so it’s a bit of a stretch, but the results are so, so worth it.

I've set myself the 3k goal again for Stash Dash this year, so we'll see how that goes. I don't have a lot of languishing projects as they are all only a few months old! But I do want to finish spinning the pink-purple roving and get the carseat poncho done, and both of those are will have some pretty good mileage. A crazy part of my mind is whispering that I could knock out my Ink cardigan--HA! No way I'll have that much time between moving and getting ready for school! A girl can dream though...