Well I started Aredhel for the 5th weekend SAL *bounce* got in over 1000 stitches, I think it was closer to 1500 but can’t be sure and the pattern is in the other room at the moment… rough translation “I am too lazy to go look”. I only stitched 310. lol It feels odd spending a weekend stitching on a HAED chart and doing over 1000 stitches of the one colour but I did. It was rather nice really seeing as I have been feeling a bit blerghy lately and something nice and simple without having to re-thread or park or battle with the little detail stitches was great. Fudgey made some great progress and with more than just 310. I don’t think anyone else ended up participating though. It could be too wearly to say though seeing as the weekend was only ending today in the US… silly dateline thingy. As for my friday over two stitching, it didn’t really happen for long. I managed a little on rose of sharon but not enough for a new pic so I will hold off tormenting Sue with another headless lady picture for now :p

My rotation has finally reached one round through (not counting this weeke St Nick Installment). The last slot was Ian Daniels Dragon Lore and I must say I am really stoked with how this one is turning out. I have done the first two columns of ten stitches wide all the way to the bottom of page 1 and started on the second two. The shading is amazing and the colours through the universe swirly bits in the background look so much better irl. I think this will be beautiful when finished… even if that is years away.

In other news (yep it was a busy little weekend this week) I finally caved to my knitting urge. For some time now I have been fighting off the ever increasing desire to knit. Not that I knew exactly what I wanted to knit, hell I haven’t knitted anything since I was a teenager (about 13 I think). Originally the urge came about from looking at blogs. There is so much more variety in yarns and patterns these days. What has really taken my eye is knitted lace. While I plan on doing some eventually I have decided to try a few small things first and see if I could still work through a patternor even hold the needles. In true Me fashion this means I have started knitting socks. Of course somewhere my brain decided that teaching myself to knit again would best be done with socks that require the use of double pointed needles and have all that foot shaping stuff going on lol. It has been fun though and I think I could even enjoy this sock knitting thing. I will post pictures of my deep purple socks of doom if and when I ever finish them. For now though I go to see if I can be productive for what remains of my evening.