She's Baaack!

She’s alive! That’s right folks, just six months after my last post, I’m back in blogger world. Not because my life has slowed down so much that I have time to post and post and post, but because I made a couple of pretty cute things recently.

Turns out that getting engaged, buying, painting and decorating a condo, graduating, working full-time and planning a wedding are all pretty monumental events in one’s life. To increase the monumentality, I did all of this at once.

In June, just five short months after my friend’s birthday, I finally completed an afghan for her. Stupid me, I forgot to take pictures of it before giving it to her. So I’ll save that story for when there are pictures.

As soon as I found out someone I knew was having twins—a girl and a boy—I got knitting. Ran out to Michael’s, got a “Pound of Love” from Lion Brand in Baby Pink and Baby Blue, and got knitting on the pattern on the wrapper. Using my favorite needles, 10.5s, I whipped these babies up in about a month—not bad for someone who hasn’t been knitting in forever.

A couple weeks ago I went to a new Super Joann Fabrics near my future inlaws’ house. It was ENORMOUS with lots and lots and lots of yarn. Didn’t buy any, because I’m feeling guilty about still having so much yarn from my fiasco in November. Plus, most of what I liked I had already knitted or still own.

Well, attached, please see a blue hooded blankie and a pink hooded blankie for the twins who are due in October. Yay!

Next step—finishing a little sweater for my cousin in time for her 1st birthday in September. I had a great start on a sweater, stopped it to make the baby blankies. Now I don’t remember which freakin’ pattern I used for it. So I tore it out and started over. No big whoop.

Now I feel an urge in me to knit and knit away, just so I have more leg space under my desk a.k.a. knitting storage area.

It’s good to be back!