The other thing taking up valuable kntting time:

Now: chaos.
Soon: cork floor.

Debbie Bliss + Noro Cash Iroha = ?

This:
grew longer, and wasn't fitting quite right. So now it's wound up into tidy balls again. I'd knit about 4 inches past the bottom of the armhole, so I frogged a significant chunk of knitting here. Sad, but liberating. I tried it from the top down, now I'll try it bottom up.

I'm knitting the Simple Jacket with Collar from Debbie Bliss Number Two, and I can't find any pictures online to link to, sorry.

It is nice to realize that if I actually work on a project, it might get done. It's been a while since I've knit much, I did knit up a pair of the felted slippers, but they are not yet felted.

Here is my latest project (by which I mean Hans did most of the work):


This was my mom's bike when she was a little older than I am now. It was covered in cobwebs, with rotten tires and flaking handlebar foam. Now it's shiny and rides smoothly.

And a photo with both bike and knitting! Those are my handspun orange mittens in action!



( I almost never ride without a helmet, but I was loaning it to a guest that day. Usually I protect my very expensive noggin.)

I've thought that a recumbent tricycle with hands-free steering would be an ideal way to combine knitting and cycling ;)

Felted Slipper-beginning

I'm a slacker, I admit it. So here is what my slacker self is starting on:


In Cascade eco-wool, off-white. My wonderful husband bought me yarn (yay!), and was informed by the yarn salesperson that this is one of the only white/almost white yarns that will felt, as it has not been chemically treated to whiten it.

Needles poised and ready to knit! One sole is done, and I'm starting up the sides.