Me wanteeeee (and gussets)

So, there's a new sweater pattern over at Girl from Auntie that I am just dying to make. I don't think I quite even have the skills to pull it off just yet, but I'm not entirely sure I care. Spent much too long scouring the internet for appropriate yarns to make it out of. Would love a nice superwash wool, but we'll see what I can find.

In other news, my very first sock, which I'm making out of KnitPicks Dancing is coming along. I turned the heel and began the gusset last night, and it's starting to finally resemble a sock. I'm rather pleased. Let's just hope it fits and feels good. I fear I've used too large of needles for it to be truly comfortable though. Oh well, we'll see how it goes.

I'm a real knitter now....

So, I've come to realize that I need a knitting blog. I keep thinking about knitting, and doing some knitting, and finding things I want to knit, and so... yeah. Knitting it is.

Hopefully I'll keep up with it all, or at least not be too goofy with it.

Anyway, to start with, I suppose a bit of background.

I've been knitting for a little over a year, ever since my best friend taught me how. Well, she taught me over a year ago, but it wasn't until last fall, after my twin sons Ben and Henry were born and I had long periods of time on the couch with them napping on my lap and nothing much to do that I really got into knitting. I especially got into knitting hats - small, easy, relatively quick and not much dangling to touch the kids' heads and wake them up.

Having mastered knitting in the round, I then tried stripes and cables and i-cords, and later ribbing and yarn overs and drop-stitches and all kinds of other fun stuff. I'm now attemping my first sock (and have cast on and frogged a second for a different pair already, which I'll probably re-cast-on soon), I have yet to try intarnsia or fair isle, as both leave me more than a bit frightened. And I would love to do something cabled again, but I have no idea as to what.

Perhaps baby sweaters or something, but knowing myself to be a prime candidate for Second Sock Syndrome, I have a serious fear of what Second Sweater Syndrome would do to me in knitting for my own kids. And knitting for other kids in my life is a good option - I just have to decide which one.

Wow. So there are a solid 20 things I should link to in this. And pictures I should post. And... wow. This blogging thing, in order to do it right, is going to take more work than I thought.