Year in Review

I thought I'd be like everyone else and show everything I knitted this year. Prepare yourself for lots of pictures!

The 2nd Howlcat for Stacy and Dan

Redundancy Hat

Soda Shoppe Hoodlet

Holla Back Tank

Black Swan 1

Black Swan 2

Scallop of the Sea

Wallpaper Cowl

Xia 2

Delores Park Cowl

Striped Tee

Delancy Cardigan

Happy New Year, everyone!

My first KAL, complete!

Even with all my procrastination, I managed to complete my first KAL (again, that's a knit-a-long for the non-knitters).  As shown in an earlier post, we knitted the lovely Delancey Cardigan by Alexis Winslow.

See?  Lovely.

Pattern: Delancey Cardigan by Alexis Winslow

Yarn:  Knit Picks Merino Style

Needles: US 7

From the back with my new short hair.

Obviously I made some changes to the pattern.  Mine has short sleeves and a more simple collar/button band.  I thought it would be more suitable for the very mild weather here in Charleston.

Also, it looks OK open.

I'm happy to be finished with this cardigan.  It was fun to knit, but there are TONS of patterns out there I want to get started on.

Red pole love!

Out with the Old

Welcome to the new blog.  I thought it was time for a change around here.  Basically, I decided to switch to Blogger from Wordpress and dump my GoDaddy hosting.  This is the result.  I hope everyone likes the new look.  I still may tweak a bit here and there.  We'll see.

What else is new?  I finished my Big Snowy Owl.  Here he is.

Cute, right?

Speaking of cuteness.  Here's the newest member of the Simper Kingdom, Ripley.

She's even smaller than Moxie. 

Lewis caught her sleeping.  

Magnolia Gardens

This past weekend Lewis and I visited Magnolia Plantation and Garden.

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We went early, but it was still very humid.  It took about 30 minutes for our cameras to adjust to the environment.  We decided to just tour the grounds and leave off the house tour.  The gardens were very nice and I got lots of flower pictures.  I have yet to process them, but hopefully some will turn out nicely.  There were several cute wooden bridges on the property.  Unfortunately, the one above was the only one that photographed decently.  All the others were over water that was covered in a very unattractive green scum. :?

In other news from the weekend, I finally finished the Chinese Wave Dishcloth.  It turned out nicely.

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I love the different textures on the two sides! :D