A Bad BAD girl, February Lady/ Hey Teach, sox yarn and a swift

Well, so much for blogging every day/night. I guess I'm not doing so well......what a bad BAD girl!! My lower lip is pouting .......boo....hooo....hoo!

I've been on winter break this week and have kept my knitting going, although not very many things have been finished. The big finish was the February Lady today!!! Too many problems with this sweater, it's still a little too raw to talk about....maybe next time. Now even saying all this, I ADORE this sweater. it is gorgeous.....just with some short sleeves.

My next tackle is going to be Hey Teach from Knitty. It seems so appropriate, so I'm going to cast on tomorrow morning. YEAH!

Now the sox yarn....... the BOY.....who in just a few weeks will officially be of the driving age ~ actually there is NO way that I should be calling my 6 feet 1 inch tall son a BOY. He decided to tell me the other day he would like a pair of socks! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? This child of mine has feet the size of small cars. Seriously, he wears a size 14 shoe most of the time and his feet are EEEE wide!! UGH!! And to add insult to injury he wants the socks to be yellow, not pastel yellow, not school bus yellow, but bright bright BRIGHT yellow with Lime green stripes. So.....Finding this yarn has been a real challenge....oh yeah he wants them to be mid-calf high as well. NO sock yarn, (I'd be knitting them until 2020!), no merino - NOTHING! I finally found some Plymouth Worsted in bright yellow and lime green. I think they knit up quite quickly now that I have found the yarn, and will be a birthday present. I am planning on stripes, based on the Fibonacci series. My son is a HUGE Dan Brown fan, so I think he will enjoy them.

Finally, a yarn swift. My husband recently ordered me a ball winder, but I held back from buying a swift. When he asked me why, I told him that I would keep using my "Men-swift" - meaning him and the BOY. And I would prefer to buy one at a garage sale, I will put some friends on it this summer and today I found a picture of one that someone made out of Lego's. I am definitely going to set the kids on that one!