I get obsessed, I knit and knit and knit on one project it is crazy. This is how things get done, this is why when I have 3 or 4 projects on the needles I can go crazy!! I started The Everyday Tweed last week and I can't stop. I love the colors, a purple/green/gray this is for the Grey's Anatomy KAL. I suspect I will need another project before the season is over. This also means Sizzle, hasn't been sizzling at all. But these colors this pattern it is so pretty!!! And a close up of the pretty colors, ball one is knit all up. I hope I have enough of the Plain and Fancy to finish!

My niece has also taken an interest in my knitting, way back when I had some extra yarn and needles with me so she tried to knit, she sort of got, but not really. But she was interested that is the important part. So for her Birthday I got her a knitting machine, now don't think ohhh all fancy. You crank this one, it comes with 400 yards of eyelash yarn. I have yet to see it perform but I hear it is working great!! It sort of scares me.

I finally posted on the ISEIII blog, they made me do it. I don't want to get kicked out and all get blacklisted. I finished up the first half of the scarf and started up the second half. I am excited to finish it up so I can start one for me.

I wanted to also comment that even though I started Sunday Finishing, I skipped a week and then worked a tiny bit this past Sunday on seaming up Cutaway. Soon we will know if it is wearable or not! LimeBlue is wearable though, that is exciting!! Here is hoping that this Sunday with no plans can be Finishing Sunday, Mystery Stole and Cutaway are screaming at me!! Then there is the Noro cowl, and green gables to finish. All these projects are they having babies when I am not looking?

I have finished something, I recently realized as I was cleaning up pictures here at the blog that I haven't finished anything in a while. Wait, wait I finished 2 somethings. One of them I have no finished picture, oops. It is the Purple Gable for mom, she actually wore it yesterday. You know how you analyze your knitting all day the first time you wear something you have knit (I am not the only one right)? I think it might be worse when someone else wears a knitted item of yours, I kept thinking hmm maybe we need more increases for the hips, and is it too tight around the middle. Sorry mom. But she loves it or at least pretends too.

I have also finished the Lime Blue Cardi, I love this sweater but I need some advice here. I don't want to rip things back but do the sleeves look too funny, one has pooled a ton and well the other did not. I like the pooling and am quite sure I can't find a way in hell to replicate it, I might have a better chance to rip the pooling sleeve to look more like the unpooled sleeve. You tell me your opinions. Well see if I am lazy and rip, live with it or what. And now the picture of the two sleeves up close and personal.

So girls does it look super funny? Is the curse of never knitting the garment once still with me. Oh wait I did have to re-knit the top part of this way back when.

Along with some finished projects I also have some new stuff going on, some old stuff found at the bottom of the pile and such.

I started Sizzle while coming home from NY, but didn't get far. Put it aside until other things had finished. Now I am cruising along. The colors are not quite as bright as in the picture. I love the Bamboo yarn, Southwest Trading Company Bamboo to be specific.

I have also pulled an old Clapotis out, since the previous one is forever the "damn" Clapotis this one is more appealing, I like the colors and may even use it one day.

The last knitting item to get attention is International Scarf Exchange knitting. I have chosen Malabrigo yarn in an Apple Cinnamon color, I think that is right. Light pink and light brown, I hope my pal loves it!! I borrowed the free pattern from the FiberBrunette, super easy and love how it looks. I see one for me coming soon!

I am also contemplating starting The Everyday Tweed with some plain and fancy as well. The Purple/Green stuff I bought in Estes, I must use some Estes yarn soon, how horrible would it be to get to Estes time next year and now have used my yarn!!

I have so many projects that are so close to being done, and they are not ones that I have given up on, just ones that have been pushed aside. This bugs me to no end, I am practical, I love to knit but I also love to use my knittables. Wear them, or at least fold them up and put them in the closet like I would wear them one day. I hate the piles project pieces. So I declared Sunday my finishing day, and the first Sunday finishing went rather well.

I completed clue 6 of Mystery Stole on one end of my stole, leaving clue 6 to do on the other end. If I don't run out of yarn. It will be close, this sucker is long..... See the new finished floors too, they look wonderful!

I have also finished up the knitting on the Cutaway, all that is left is seaming. This shouldn't be to bad. I just hope the bind off on this one doesn't make the round parts in front bunch too much.

Also finished is the Purple Gables for Mom, she just needs to try it on ok the sleeve length and then I will sew in the sleeve ends. See this makes me feel better I have made progress on some items that have been neglected. Until next Sunday.

Tennis was great, vacation was mostly great, traveling with my mom and sister, ehhh. We are going to need a 5 year break before I am ready to do this again and forget all the annoying things about family.

So this is most likely just going to be a quick sneak peek into the vacation with some more details later, but well if I never get to the details the overall info is here. Thursday night we saw one of the most amazing match I have ever seen, Agassi vs Bagdahtis, the last winning match of Agassi's career. Friday even James Blake made a tribute to Agassi by wearing this throw back Agassi outfit (I think I had a poster of Agassi in this outfit in my room, in err Middle School I hope.) We saw many other big names and great matches including Martina Navrativola which I had never seen play before. I could have stayed and just watched tennis I love it. If only I could pay attention to knitting while watching. OK this might be a tennis only post with others to come (where else can I post all the pictures)...

I saw the up and coming new Russianish Nicole Vaidisova as well as the old favorites. Lindsay Davenport she hasn't retired yet but I think it may be coming soon. There was also Roddick, Mauresmo, Serina, Hewitt, Janvokic.

So much tennis I loved it. I couldn't come home with out an addition to my collection as well, who knew I collect rubber ducks. Isn't he cute!!! OK now onto, maybe some knitting and other purchases made.

There was some non-tennis happenings as well, and a lot of touristy things too. I didn't partake in the super touristy day of Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the double decker bus ride in the rain, I needed the break from the family. So I met up with the no longer in Denver, super missed Cyn it was great to see her!!! I met up with her, and some of her friends for a great breakfast, she did all proper over on her blog with links and all, go check it out.

Then on to shopping, now I am sure it is no surprise to the local group that well we didn't take any pictures. It is the great plan that we may be the least photographed knitters... We started out at School Products which was a unique yarn store they had a ton of cashmere blends and what not. I bought one little skein of 100% Cashmere, it is so so soft. Cynthia didn't show a picture of what she bought I suspect maybe because there was some Koigu with some pinkish (no, wait it had to be purple) in it. Really pretty no less.

It was rainy and not the best of days, but we trudged through it, I was just happy to not have conversations like:

Mom: "How far is the Empire State building from our hotel?"

Me: "I don't know."

Mom: "How long will it take us to get there?"

Me: (trying to be nice) "Mom if I don't know how far it is how will I know how long it will take?"

As so on and so on. I call them filler questions, like when I do something obvious and someone asks about it. I buy a shirt at the US Open, my mom is like "oh do you like that shirt?" No mother I bought it because it is fricking ugly!!! She likes to fill the space has to talk regardless, quiet is not good for Mom, so she asks stupid annoying questions that drive me crazy and bring out the worst in me. Ok so onto the shopping.

I had wanted to get a bag, not any bag a bag you can only get in NY not one I would be able to find at home, or see someone else with at home. We hit a two stores, I found the bag in the second store. Verve it was a small shop with a ton of bag's all so beautiful and not all so affordable. I came home with this little (well actually the biggest purse I own). I really love it and feel less and less guilty about the price the more I look at it. I don't even have enough crap to fill it up, yet.

There was also some Vacation knitting, I bound off the body of the Green Gable for my mother on Tuesday night, I have the sleeves to go and it will be done!! I didn't think I had knit much while I was out there but apparently I had. I am pleased with how this is looking, I hope it sill fits Mom ok when I give it to her. Can I knit every pattern top down in the round, I love it!!

And since I was on vacation and calories don't count, which also means if you start something new just for the fun of it, even if you have 10 things to finish at home, there is no guilt there either (Not really true but I can try and fool myself). I cast on for Knit and Tonic's Sizzle I have not made it far yet, apparently the guilt set in about when I walked in the door and say the lime blue cardi, cutaway and my very own Green gable that needs to have some work done on them...

I was gone for 5ish days girls and I came home to so many blogs to catch up on, the most amazing one was Nachaele she updated 12 times while I was gone and was also packing, cleaning and moving. I am not sure I can squeek out that many posts in a month!