Wow! I have a blog!

Wow! I have a blog. I've wondered for a while about doing a blog. Would anyone actually read what I wrote? Could I entertain and inspire? Well, here goes.

I need to upload a picture of my Sweater Sampler from Jacqueline Fee's Sweater Workshop. I'm so impressed with myself that I've gotten this far. For those who have done the sampler, I'm up to the lace edging. (And thank you Kelley for inspiring me to start this project with your podcast.) I must admit that I'm a little embarrassed about the Sampler. It's about 3 feet long. I guess that I had a problem with gauge. My mother looked at the sampler and wanted to know when I was knitting the matching pants leg. Hmmm. But I am proud of every stitch and every mistake I made along the way.

I am starting to get a little board with the Sampler, however, so I'm back to my loom. I started looming at some point this summer, I think, and it was a great introduction to knitting. My mother has been trying to get me to knit for years, but I never seemed to have the coordination. With a loom, you don't need coordination. Suddenly, I was making hats and scarves for my small children who totally did not appreciate them. In fact, my 4-year old looked at the scarf and threw it across the room. Heartwarming, isn't it.

Anyway, I started this very cool scarf last October as part of an ambitious holiday gift. My husband's cousin has five children, yet his wife sends us Chanukkah gifts every year. Actually, she sends us several gifts throughout the year; I don't know how she does it. This year, I decided to knit scarves for her family. After all, knitting a scarf on a loom only takes a few hours, and I have quite a stash from my crocheting days.

This scarf consist of two colors - sea green and emerald green. I started the scarf with a patch of emerald green (about 10 rows or so), then knitted a patch of emerald green and sea green together, and moved into a patch of sea green. This flow between greens continues throughout the scarf. I am finishing the scarf with sea green. Then, I am going to put sea green fringes on the emerald green patch and vice-versa. It really is a simple and pretty scarf.

You will be happy to know that I hope to finish this scarf tonight. Okay, I hope to bind off tonight; doing the fringe may be too much to ask. So, five months after the knitting project began, I have completed one scarf. At this rate, the family should have their scarves in about 4 years. I'm not confident that I will make that deadline.

That's probably enough blogging for one evening. Thanks for listening.