I love Koigu. I have a box of never used, barely touched Koigu. I decided it was high time to dig in! Before I was on the “must have every STR known to knitterkind” kick,  I was on the “must have every Koigu color ever made” kick. I needed a break from scarves, so with a little inspiration from Bot-gurl I cast on for a cowl. Hush! You know I need it!

To distract you from the fact I’m knitting cold weather accessories in Texas, here is a glorious picture of the Gloria v 2.0 cowl

I love the purples and blues and greens in this. Just so lovely. It’s my Olympic watching knitting!

P-)

Really what can I say? Yes, it’s been a long time. I could lay blame on a lot of different things, but I’m not. I’m just gonna post like it hasn’t been forever!

Except that I don’t really have anything to show you. My camera is on it’s last lens. It’s had a good life. Poor thing. Anyway, I have one photo to show you and it’s a beauty!

My sock drawer!!

Lovely, aren’t they?

I have been knitting. And even finishing a few things. And before YOU say anything, yes I do need all the scarves I’m knitting! I may never get to wear them all here in Texas but maybe I’ll move someday. Maybe I’ll go spend a winter in Cananda. Maybe I’ll get a job working for Santa at the North Pole. You just never know.

So, hopefully soon I will have pretty pictures of knitted objects.

In the meantime, this is my favorite roast chicken recipe. So easy and so good!

Psycho Chicken

Also, I haven’t forgotten my Socks That Rock contest. Yes, you can win a skein of STR right out of my sock stash! I want to show a picture with the contest, so again, look for that soon!

In the meantime, stay cool, keep knitting, and don’t forget about the Ps!

P-)

After three starts to the STR Ampersands, and two to the Cherry Tree Hill, I have decided to step away from the socks for the moment.  I am having the hardest time getting anything started or even picked back up for that matter.  I look at patterns, and yarn,and then swatch them, don’t like it, and then I frog it.  Over and over.  So, I decided to pick up something mindless for the moment.  All knitting, increasing on one row and decreasing on another and voila!  Pretty!  

This is Brooks Farm Mas Acero that I got in Rhinebeck, NY.  This will be great for the trip to Italy in September.  It will go really great with my cute new shoes!!!

Borns… found at DSW, for just under 30 bucks!  I love coupons.

Whether you were celebrating Independance Day or not, I hope you all had a great fourth of July!

Hi. It’s me, PurlingPirate. Remember me? I remember you! Sorry, I’ve been gone for awhile. Life just kind of got tough and icky all of a sudden. And then my hard drive crashed. And I lost everything. Because I’m a dope and didn’t back up my ‘puter since May of last year. But I’m back now. Things aren’t less tough or even less icky, but I think I’m handling it better.

I don’t have any knitting to show you. I have been knitting. And doing a lot of frogging. And reknitting. And more frogging. Hopefully soon I will have something fiber related to show you.

I hate pictureless posts though, so here are some random good things in my life.

Here is the cake I decorated for The Squid’s party (Martha Stewart, I am not):

Here is a sweet drawing The Squid did just for Bot-gurl and Purse-ho:

Did you know that aloe vera plants bloomed? I didn’t, but mine did:

And here is one of my favorites! Gardenias! My gardenia bush exploded with blooms this year:

I’ll be back soon with some knitting, a chicken recipe, and an STR giveaway!!! As KnitterBoy would say, stay tuned…

I finished the Purless Monkeys on Thursday… but I am missing them.  I really liked this  pattern!  And, I really liked looking at that Tiffany Blue.  So pretty…

I would start another pair of Monkeys, but I don’t think I want to do that pattern for either of next two pair of socks on the needles.  These are going to be Christmas pressies, and really you just can’t start early enough for that, right?  It is July in Texas, and I think that is totally appropriate for wool socks!  One pair will be STR, color Alina, and I think I am going to do the Ampersand pattern.

The other pair will be out of this Cherry Tree Hill, color Peacock.

I don’t have a clue what pattern I am going to use for these. I want something simple, but interesting.  Yeah, that would be like EVERY sock pattern. HA!  I am keeping my eyes open… checking all my books, looking through ravelry, Knitty, all the usual places. I will let you know when I find the perfect pattern. 

Other than that, I am catching up on my list over there on the right.  It’s time for me to pick up something else from the ‘07 list, but all I want to do is start something NEW!!!  New and exciting… maybe something else blue.  I am diggin’ the blue right now.  Le sigh… I will work on a sock until I feel inspired by something else. 

And because it is summer, Hubby and I are going somewhere everyweekend!  This weekend we went out to Eagle Mountain Lake.  It isn’t one of the biggest around here, but it is less than an hour away and is a nice lake!  We really enjoyed our sandwiches and ice cold beer sitting in the boat and watching all the BIG boats zoom by.  We love the water and are either at one of the many lakes in Texas or we are in the pool and grilling outside. 

I do have finished a pair of socks, but no pictures yet.  And I am very close to being done with the Tiffany’s Box Purless Monkeys.  Here’s a quick pic!

I am at the heel flap of the second one, so this shouldn’t take too much longer. 

 I haven’t done any more motifs for the Nico Dress, but will get to those soon.  Maybe I will crank one out tonight!  I realized today that I don’t have a shawl on the needles.  I always have a shawl on the needles… have you seen Seascape?  So pretty!  What about this one from Moorehouse?  I was talking with the Purse-Ho and we think we can recreate this so I can use some of my stash yarn.  I have some blue and some pink Jaggar Spun Zephyr that could be fun in that two colored look… don’t you think?  Hmmm… what to start next?