Knitpicks

I am ok, but haven't had time to blog because work is busy and I have other things to do with my free time. But today I am feeling ill which made me pretty unproductive. As a result, I'm blogging.

Not that there is much to say knitting wise. I have lots of WIPs. I finished a couple of smaller things over the last month, but nothing overly exciting. The scarf I made out of malabrigo is absolutely yummy.

Today I finally ordered yarn from knitpicks for the first time. They don't deliver to the UK, but we are doing a joint order through ravelry through one of the groups there. I bought quite a bit of fingering weight yarn. I was disappointed because they were out of so many colours of Palette, but I picked two colours to make the Endpaper mitts. Then I picked some Gloss in cocoa that should complement a yarn I already have to make this cowl. (Isn't the pattern just gorgeous?) I also got some gloss to make Nancy Bush's Evening stockings in red. That is something I've been planning to make for a while, and even if I decide that I don't like Gloss as a sock yarn, I can still knit a little shawl or scarf out of it. Opinion on ravelry seems to be divided as to how good Gloss is as a sock yarn. And then I got enough of Gloss for a pair of socks in the pumpkin colourway. I've been wanting some orange sock yarn for a while now and I'll probably cast on with that as soon as it gets here. Overall, I've been pretty disciplined. I didn't buy anything that wasn't on my shopping list for my queue.

I'll post again if I actually manage to finish any interesting projects.