Center Square

Center Square from Winter Knitty 2006. Patons Classic Wool in winter white and chestnut brown, two strands held throughout on 8mm needles. I followed the pattern to a T. Started December 26, finished December 27. I'm wondering if I have enough leftover yarn to do another one reversing the colors. I also toyed with the idea of doing another one and felting it to make a child's hat for the Dulaan Project. I'll think about it. (Oh, yes, this is mine! Finally something for me!) I think colorwork could become addictive. I really kinda liked this (even though I'm not the greatest at it), and now I'm looking at this pattern. We have some superwash wool at the store that will work. Maybe someday I'll get as good as some other people at this!

I'm glad I made myself this nice, warm hat. The weather turned quite chilly. Hubby and I also went to the free adult public skate today, and I wore it there. I need new skates really badly. I have white figure skates I got when I was in high school, and they hurt my feet now. I want those new boot skates. I'll probably wait til they start marking them down before I buy a pair. I don't go skating enough to spend too much on a new pair. I think I saw a pair in the Wal-Mart flyer the other week that were a different brand and a lot cheaper. I don't need a fancy name.

Been playing with the ball winder. I wound the yarn for Dad's belated Christmas slippers. I had some help, as you can see in the picture. I really want a swift. My chairs don't allow the yarn to flow smoothly off the backs, so I have to unwind it by hand a little bit, leave it on the floor, wind it on the winder, etc, etc, til I'm finished. I did have hubby holding the last skein, and it did go much better. He's gone so much, though, that I'll have to do all my winding when he's home! (I'll talk about these chairs in the next post maybe. There's a story behind them. My old chairs had straight backs and would have been a breeze to use as a swift. Unfortunately they are all broken, thus the replacement chairs.)

Got my eBay yarn yesterday for Karen's Sugar-Free Socks. I cannot wait to start these! I've never used this yarn before, and it is soooooo soft. It will be nice to have a pair of socks on the needles, especially warm ones for me since the weather has gotten chilly.

I hear it calling from the closet....

Here's a copy and paste job from yesterday's post on a little contest of a sort I have going on:

I also have a little bit of a contest to hold. Well, it's only a contest if I get more than one person who wants it. I ordered the boys some Lite Brite refills for Christmas from Toys R Us. One was a Star Wars refill kit (I know, more for me, the SW freak that I am), and the other one was supposed to be this plain one. When it came it was My Little Pony, which isn't even listed on their site. I don't have any little girls with Lite Brites to give it to. Anyhoo, all you have to do is leave me a comment or e-mail me saying you either have a little girl with a Lite Brite Classic, Cube, or Travel OR you know a little girl with said item(s) who would like to have it. If I get more than one person expressing interest then I will do the random draw thing to see who gets it. {darganknits at hotmail dot com}

I will run this until New Year's Day, then make the draw. So far there are three people who have expressed interest in it. I'm glad it will be going to someone's little girl -- it's more bother than it's worth for me to return it.

I have more pictures to share, but Blogger crapped out on me. Off to start Dad's slippers or his birthday hat. I'm also a Coronation Street fan. Tonight is a sad one. Mike Baldwin dies. He's been in the show for thirty years. (We're months and months behind England, and I always cheat and go on the ITV site to see what's going on.)

Ho, ho, ho!

Happy knitting!