Well, I haven't stopped knitting, just blogging. The slow winter days in the shop helped me to make progress with my New Year's Resolution: finish all my started projects.

I've also been working on Master Knitter Level 2. All of the swatches are done and are available at the shop for your perusal. The projects for Level 2 are a fair isle mitten, an argyle sock and a vest. I've made several fair isle mittens and I've not been happy with any of them, so I've set them aside for know until my frustration level dies down! I've knit one argyle sock, using a duplicate stitch for the lines. I'm now working on a second sock, this time knitting in the diagonal lines. The knitting-in method is definitely much more time efficient, but I'm thinkin' the duplicate stitch looks better. Stay tuned!

Here's some pictures of my finally-finished projects:

The one on the left is the "Fair and Square Wrap" by Inknitiative. Fairly simple, lots of fun, and a contemporary design. It could probably be made using stash yarns that were compatible in weight and texture.

The middle photo is a pair of gloves. I designed the pattern myself after working several other patterns and taking the best qualities from each. I used a fingering weight self-patterning yarn, so the gloves don't exactly match, and each finger looks different.

The project on the right is my double knit scarf. I designed the motif, a heart-in-a-heart. I used two different colorways of Noro's Silk Garden Lite. The background color changes gradually and the pattern color changes gradually, but the colors are different. Double knitting is one of my favorite techniques. Self-striping yarns invite color play. So when you put the two of them together, voila!

Do you remember more than a year ago when we started the Tech Afghan class? The goal was to knit one sqare per month. Well, the class is over and we have two beautifully knit afghans. A year is a long time, and life gets in the way. There are several other afghans in different stages of completion, and we hope to share them with you when we can. These two were completed by Carol Papineau and Shirley Henning.

Check out the website for our new class schedule, http://www.theyarnmarket.com/. Book club continues, we start a new book next week. We'd love to have you join us.

I'm going to market in June in Columbus. Let me know if you have any suggestions for additions to our product lines.

And last, but not least, baby Bradley is growing. Crawling, almost walking, he has 5 teeth, and loves to eat. And sometimes, he has ATTITUDE!