The Top

As I said weeks ago, I finished the gold top. Don't I look great in it?

The Box Has Been SENT!

I finally completed my NBC portfolio and sent it off last night. Yes last night. I got in the car and drove the post office by Tampa Airport and sent if off express mail. Now I get to cram for my assessment center exercises. They don't call them tests. I guess "assessment" may seem a little less threatening than "test." I six weeks to prepare.

Meanwhile, I will continue to knit. With summer coming up and me needing to "save" some money to get me through ten weeks of temporary unemployment, I guess I'll be knitting some projects with the *gulp* Red Heart acrylic yarn that i have. I've gotten spoiled using yarns by Cascade and Noru and Malabrigo, etc...

Almost done

I haven't made any new posts lately because I've been consumed with completing my National Board portfolios. The first three entries are boxed. I have a couple of things to add to entry 4 and I'm ready to send it off to Texas.

Look for new posts very soon of my Glitterspun sleeveless mock turtleneck and my FIRST pair of SOCKS!

Hanging in there

The wash cloths are still works in progress. I went out bought several balls of cotton yarn with the Michael's gift card I got for Christmas. My that came in REALLY handy. The layette set is almost complete. I have several totes to felt. I haven't knitted a pillow in a while so that will be one of my spring projects along with learning how to knit socks. I am presently "stuck" on my practice sock at the gusset.

March is nigh, so I am going to have to discipline myself to *sigh* set aside the knitting and get down to finishing my National Board entries. (Boy that was hard to type!)

Wash Cloths

Wash or dish cloths are good projects to practice different knit stitches. Plus I wanted to work in a yarn other than wool or acrylic. For example, my first wash cloth was done in moss stitch. I was ready to do a second one using trinity stitch except I couldn't figure out how to work the stitch pattern. I'll be asking someone at Knit n Knibble on Thursday. I settled for divided boxes. I will post a pic after I've done four or five.