Mer Knits!

    Sigh...two knitting projects and one sewing project completed and still no camera!  I can at least show you what my newest project is though:

Butterfly!

    I think this will be a great use for the lovely silk yarn from The Sanguine Gryphon that I had started to use for the Silk Camisole.  I am using the pattern from the book Romantic Style, which only has the dress version, but I'm modifying it to make a tank like the version in Rowan 37.

     And big thanks to Sharon and Ceci  for naming me a

    I know this has been going around for a while and I have no idea who has already received this prestigious award, but here are a few rockin' ladies:

Amanda

Karma 

Stacey (aka Earthchick) 

Allegra 

Cheryl 

     I have indeed finished Sahara, but since our digital camera is vacationing with one of our friends, I can't show it to you right now.  What did I ever do before I got that camera?  I've also cast on for Le Slouch in a lovely deep purple color for Project Spectrum, but of course, no picture of that either.  (Actually, you can see the yarn I'm using for the hat in the photo below--it's leftover from this project!)

     So instead I'll show you a project that I knit quite some time ago but never blogged about as a test knit for Cheryl.  She just recently published the pattern on her blog, so I thought it was a good time to break out the photos!

     I had hoped to tell you about a nice relaxing weekend at the beach in celebration of our 5th wedding anniversary, but unfortunately that's not the way it worked out.  We drove down to Galveston Saturday for a mini-vacation and enjoyed an hour or so on the beach and a nice dinner before discovering that all of our cash had been stolen.  We had left our wallets in our hotel room thinking that they would be safer there than on the beach, but apparently that wasn't the case.  And when we finally got in touch with the hotel management today, they said their policy is that they're not responsible for anything stolen out of a hotel room.  Which I suppose I understand, but that sort of gives their employees the freedom to take anything they want, doesn't it?  Although the rest of the weekend was ok, it's hard not to let something like that ruin a trip.

      On a happier note, Sahara is nearly done!