Winner!!!!!

I entered my socks in the Alrington County Fair this past week and they won 2nd place!!! I was so proud of them. I called my mom right away to tell her since they were her Spring Forward socks! She was so excited and proud that she was getting award winning socks :)

Noro Silk Garden Sock yarn! I'm doing a KAL with some of my fave ladies, Wendy, Chan, and Stacey for the Anastasia Socks toe up. I have never done toe up, but I'm excited to try it!

Love these amazing colors! Just perfect for my feet!!!

Look who has come out to play, the CLAPPEE!!!!! Oh how I've missed it! I worked on this for a LONG time in the fall, but put it down because I just couldn't bare the thought of how long it was going to take me. Well, I sat down on Monday and realzied that I don't really have that much more to go. I could be done now, but I like my scarves long, and my cousin will too :)

These colors are just fantastic and perfect for the receipiant. She wanted a variety of greens :)

Wendy and I took one of our knitting friends and another of our none knitting friends to A Tangled Skein in MD for a Sunday trip. It was so fun to eat at Franklin's variety store. I picked up a few things for my swap parter as well as a nice ice cube tray that makes skulls and crossbones for my dad!

This is some fantastic yarn I picked up. It's Araucania Ranco Multi in an amazing colorway. I picked it up for socks, but it might turn into something different... Who knows.

All the colors are just fantastic.

These are my Sailor's Delight socks I started a week or so ago. I love them so far. They are Dream in Color Smooshy in the Flamingo Pie colorway. YUM!

Detail shot of the socks..

I have finished the heel and the decrease and I'm moving in on the rest of the foot.

The detail is just fantastic, in my opinion.

My socks are getting better and better the more I knit. It's been the easist project to keep in my small Vera Bradley bag and put in my purse for the bus or even with friends!

My friend Ora has a BEAUITFUL garden of just herbs and peppers. I got out my camera for our weekly Tuesday night dinner and took some pictures of her beautiful peppers. They are HOT!! The brownish pepper is a Chocolate Habenero, on the information tag it says "intensely hot" I will not be trying one of those! :)

I love the detail that my camera can pick up on different things. I'm so glad that I bought my Nikon D60. It's been so fun to practice taking pictures again. I think I'm getting better... slowly!

Hopefully, I'll have a FO after this weekend!!! Wendy and I are going up to her parents campground in PA for a weekend away and a Hog Roast!!! Oh I love a good hog roast. Should I wear the shirt we had made for the last one we had? :) It has a picture of a hog with an apple in its mouth, pretty funny!!!

Package and Blanket

My second package for the Summer of Yarn Love arrived and I can't WAIT to use this yarn! It's just the perfect colors for me :) And I didn't have the book, so that awesome as well!

The colors are so saturated and beautiful!

Here is my red sqaure for Sheep in the City's Barn Blanket for her dad. In progress..

So I finished it... BUT.... I bound off WAY too tight... I plan on fixing this problem this week so I can get it in the mail...

I totally love the book and the concept of the blanket... It might become a blanket I want to make... Maybe :)

I have lots more pictures!!!

Lovely Summer Socks!

These are the three pairs of socks that I've completed so far. I love them :)

Up close...

Project Stats:
Pattern: Rippling Dunes Socks (rav)

Source: Knitting Calendar from my neighbor for Christmas 2008

Size: 9 1/2 foot

Yarn: Colinette Jitterbug in Gauguin

Needles: Size 2 DPN's

Modifications: I added 6 stitches because 60 was too tight around the foot.

Love this colorway with these socks..

Those cables are so pretty... But I think I'm done with cabled socks for a while!!

I finished the River Rapids as well. I absolutely love Shibui Knits Sock yarn. It's amazing!

The bottoms are even pretty!



Here are my Mom's Spring Forwards. She has seen a small picture and she is so excited! I will give them to her in October when her and my dad come to DC!

Just playing with the camera a little more..

Summer time Sangria! I have been having Tuesday night dinner with a few friends. And it's every Tuesday, sometimes Wednesday instead. But we meet, eat dinner, talk and just have a good time. It's only ladies allowed! Wendy, myself, my housemates I lived with previously, and a few of their friends from their neighborhood. We have fantastic food, delicious drinks, and great conversations! We are still trying to figure out a name for ourselves.. TNDC (Tuesday Night Dinner Club), Sisterhood of the Traveling Pot, or Circle of Friends. Any Suggestions??

We had Paella with no seafood. We have some seafood allergies in the group, so it better to just live them out. :) I think I will start posting what we have every week! It's always so good!!!

I just started a new pair of socks with Dream in Color Smooshy in the Flamingo Pie colorway. I love them already...

Pictures...

I've been praticing with my camera a little bit more :) I still am COMPLETELY in love with it!! This is with a telephoto lense I borrowed from a friend for a few minutes. She also helped me out with where I can buy new lenses for the camera here in DC for cheap!


My roommate and I had a Iron Chef Arlington Competition at our house a few weeks ago. The secret ingrediant was LIME. It happens to be my favorite citrus! I drink my diet cokes with lime all the time, but not Diet Coke Lime.. I have to have the real stuff!


My dish was Jasmine rice with Lime and Cliantro. And it was delicious! It was almost all gone at the end of the day.

This is Rufus. I lived with Rufus at my last house for 3 months. He is the best and most cuddly dog I have met to date. He was just get close to you and lay his in your lap so you will pet him. He loves attention and can't get enough!

Here is it all cute by the coffee table. He makes these faces and it just melts my heart :)

This is Tate. She is 14 or 15 years old now and still kicking! She is Rufus's older sister. And believe it or not, they love each other! I love this girl too. She knows what she wants and she normally gets it too!

I think that was distracting enough! I have MORE FO's to show, but finished them so late last night, that I couldn't take a good picture of them. BUT.. that is what will be next!

My mom's Socks! They are Spring Forward from Knitty in Colinette Jitterbug in Monet. It was an extremely easy pattern repeat! I have found that I like when socks have a 12-16 row pattern repeat because it seems to go so much faster! I think it's just that I don't put them down until I've finished a whole repeat!

Project Stats
Pattern: Spring Forward
Source: Knitty
Size: 81/2 foot.
Yarn: Colinette Jitterbug in Monet
Needles: US 2 DPNs
Notes: I didn't make any changes.
Started: June 12, 2008
Finished: July 7, 2008



These are my first socks for SOS '08! I love them! I have now finished this sock and I'm at this point on the second sock! I love the colorway, I love the yarn, I love the pattern, and I can't wait to put them on my feet!!!

Project Stats
Pattern: River Rapids Socks (PDF) or River Rapids Socks (Ravelry link)
Source: Sockbug
Size: Size 9-91/2 foot
Yarn: ShibuiKnits in Jewel
Needles: US 2 double points
Notes: I didn't make any changes. I LOVE these socks!
Started: July 7, 2008
Finished: ??

I will get modeled shots of the socks tonight because I finally have time!! :)

4th of July

I had a party at work for all the residents in the building. By the way, I work in Property Management. We have one of the best views in the city of the National Mall in DC as well as a few other things, you know monuments and stuff. :)

We had our favorite vendors make some delicious fruite tarts.. And let me tell you, they were just as good as the look :) YUM!



Next the fireworks started! I got some really great shots of the fireworks. It was a fantastic display, besides the rain...

The colors are so vibraint and they had some really cool looking fireworks too!

The event brought out about 60-80 people to our rooftop at work. It was so much fun! I am definately glad it was a success, but I am more glad that it's over and I can relax now! I don't have to plan anything else for the summer, at work at least, and I can focus on actual work now!

You will all being seeing lots more pictures now! I love taking pictures with the new camera and can't wait to take more :)

Ohh.. up next.. my first finished pair of Summer of Socks 08 socks... Spring forwards for my mom!! She can't wait to get them!

I love my Camera!

I love my new camera!

These flowers are in our event room at work.

New sock yarn. Shibui in Rappongi! It's going to make some excellent socks.

Close up.

This is Shibui in Jewel. Also going to make amazing socks... for me!!

Dream in Color Classy in Happy Forest for the February Lady Sweater

Can't wait to get started on the sweater :) It will be my first real sweater.

Malabrigo Silk in Sunny Lime... 4 skeins that will becoming a Clapotis!

A great close up of the silk goodness! This is by far my favorite yarn.. I can't wait to start working it with!

More pictures to come! I can't stop using my camera everywhere I go! :)