Spring Knitting and Winter Snow

Despite my limited free time lately, I now have 5 inches done on my Lovegood sweater. Although I like the look of the finer gauge, I don't think I will be knitting a sweater on a size 1 or 2 anytime soon...3 and 4 is small enough for me right now! Some of the other projects listed on Ravelry had lace panels on the back, too. I think it looked beautiful and intended to do it. The real reason mine doesn't have lace on the back? I forgot and was too lazy to take it out and start over. Thankfully, the original sweater by CanarySanctuary looks great without the extra lace on the back.

While uploading the picture of my sweater, I found my missing pictures of a trip to the mountains at the end of February. The snow falling and covering everything was too beautiful not to photograph!

Welcome to Needles and Ewe!

OK, so I am notoriously bad at consistently writing journals, e-mails, and letters. My Ravelry page spent a long time with no project pictures...crying the whole time, I'm sure. My great idea was to add the care instructions for each yarn to my project page so I would not forget, but yeah, that hasn't happened yet. (Note to self: I think that will be on my to-do list this weekend, along with my brown shrug.) ...and that is why it takes me so long: I can't seem to avoid tangents! But back to the point, I have decided to use Julie/Julia as my inspiration and commit to a blog for one year. Since I do know myself, I am going to go for one post a week, cheer for myself, and count any extra posts as, well, extra.

I love crafts of all sorts. They usually fall into the category of crafts I've done, crafts I'm going to try soon, and crafts I will keep in reserve to try in a few years or so. The current obsession is knitting, which I have been doing for about a year and a half, though crochet, sewing, quilting, rubber stamps, ceramics and so many others would make the crafts list. One thing on the list of future things to learn would be stained glass...ahh, so many crafts and not enough time!

Speaking of time...that's it for my first post. I have considered going back and changing it from three posts to one per week (though I didn't) and I considered staying up past midnight tonight to add a second one tonight (but I decided that would be cheating), so for now I bid you adieu!