bioengiknitter

Not having a lot of time to knit lately. The San Diego 3-Day walk is this weekend! Our team had our final training weekend this past Saturday and Sunday, and while I love doing the walk and am so excited, boy will it be nice to have my weekend mornings back. Especially these last couple of months that we've been walking both Saturday and Sunday for round about four hours each. But in the end I think we're all ready. You might have noticed the lack of a fund-raising contest that I mentioned a while back, well that's because as a team we reached our goal! There are nine of us walking, and we each needed to raise $2200 for the walk. We did fundraisers all year long and raised about $11,000 with those. Wow! When we combined that with what we each got individually from friends and family, we had more than enough for all of us, about $25,000 total. We're so excited, and proud of ourselves!

However, I was sort of excited to hold a contest, so I'll have to come up with another excuse. I have a couple of opportunities coming up in the next couple of months...stay tuned!

My knitting progress is hardly worth mentioning, but I do have two things active right now. First is a pair of socks for the October Ravelry Sockdown, which if you remember from my first October pair, must be either a Nancy Bush pattern or a pattern with cables. Yes, it's November, but they only had to be cast on in October, and we have two months to finish them. So I have until the end of the month. I'm not sure I'll make it, this is only the first sock. (Note the pink 3-day-i-fied toes, this color is sooooo not my normal thing!)

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They're the Naive Socks by spillyjane, in Knit Picks Essential in Cocoa. Oh, and the cool project bag is from Amber's Green Lotus etsy store--I got to choose one as a prize for winning the August Sockdown challenge drawing! It was so generous of her to donate a prize and I love it.

Next comes some more Christmas knitting. A hat, somewhat like those I knit for the boys last Christmas. Same chart, anyway, from Jack Sparrow's Favorite Socks. However, this time I'm using sport weight to solve my chart-running-into-my-crown-decreases problem from last time, and I used the pattern from the We Call Them Pirates hat for the brim and the liner (when I get to it). So far the outside is knit, I still have to get yarn for the liner. The yarn for this one is Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport in Lilac and Grapevine. I got some Black Purl for the lining, but it's too dark, so I guess I'll just have to go back to emtnestr's eBay store and get some Purple Club, which I think will be perfect. (:: twist my arm ::)

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This one will be for my niece. Be warned, though--there will be three more in various colors to follow when this one's done! It's the second annual Christmas of the pirate cap around chez bioengiknitter.

That's it. I won't get any knitting at all done this weekend, but I'll try and have 3-day pictures for you on Monday! If I can get out of bed, that is. Please wish me happy, blisterless feet. Thanks in advance for that! Cheers.