Craft Room V1.0

The craft room has finally reached a comfortable, user friendly state.  It is clean, fairly organized and ready to serve as playroom and home office.

Ok, so I've still got a table covered in random stuff, but that's pretty normal for my craft room.

I'm not sure I'm capable of keeping a desk top clean, so the home office will always be in a perpetual state of needing to be cleaned.  Fortunately, I can work among chaos and do regularly purge things from the top of my desk.

I will be starting the hunt for craft room friendly furniture now.  I'm thinking about a combination of a couple of banquet tables (which I have 2 of) and some comfy chairs.  Must have a good spot to sit and knit up here. Jocyln has already claimed her favorite spot for lounging in the craft room.

Jacy is more likely to be wandering or trying to get into what ever I might be working on at the time.  But when she sits by herself, it is usually on top of or near the heat register, since she just can't be too warm.

So that's it, clean enough to use and ready to be furnished.  Painting this room will wait until I put in more built in shelves and the like, but I'm happy with version 1 of my craft room.

Epic Projects

Last fall Jared Flood held classes at Loop in Philly.  A fellow SnB'er wanted to attend the Girasole class and I couldn't resist this ginormous lace concoction.  It truly is beautiful.  I knew when I started this it would be an on-again off-again project.  Making anything that is 5 feet in diameter out of lace weight yarn is going to take a while.  With that in mind I started my first multi-year knitting project.

Needless to say I started it during the class, finished the first chart and quickly but it aside to start my Christmas knitting.  Christmas knitting was extensive this past year, finally completed in February.  So I've picked up the Girasole again and gladly completed the second chart.

Trust me when I say, this is only the beginning.  There are 5 more charts, some of which are repeated.  I'm in love with this project, but enjoying the option of setting it aside to work on something else as well.

In fact, I've started my first real pair of socks.  They are done in a cool colorway called "Sis Boom Bah" from Scout's Swag.  No pictures of the actual sock project, but here's the yarn and needles waiting to begin transformation.

These socks will most likely be a gift, because I know someone who is going to love this colorway, even more than me, my Mom.  The pattern I'm using is Sinuosity, by KnittingNonStop.  Dawn is awesome, tons of fun, designs great patterns and just happens to be one of the local CKW (cleveland knits west) knitters.  So the fact that there is Sinuosity KAL (knit along) happening right now should come as no surprise.

This is the first time I've participated in a knit along.  They are cool since you have access to many other knitters who are working through the same pattern at the same time to ask questions.  Or in my case, learn how to cable with out cable needles from.  PKJewelry has been helping me with my cabling education.  I can now do knit twists, both left and right with out a cable needle!  Pam is also a lady of many talents.  I bought my awesome chocolate row counter shown in the Girasole photo from her etsy shop.

Ok, enough typing about knitting.  Its time to head to Eric's to make bacon crackers, praline bacon (sense a theme yet) and other tasty(not healthy) finger food to eat while watching OSU in the tourney tonight.