Raspberry Beret....

took forever - literally it seems - to get this hat posted - but here is Pamela W. Allen's Baby Beret in Rowan Pure Wool 4 ply -the post on this on her blog is here

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my blanket is D O N E... the party is today... i can post pics after that - i will not, however, get to see the face of the recipient - have a patient in hospital in the form of the paternal parental unit... he comes first... but i can share once i know it is in the right hands...

hope on ...hope ever... i have GOT to start another pair of soldier socks i have been remiss in that...

perhaps the hardest baby blanket....

... of all time...

i have been working on a baby shower gift for the past ... um... maybe since i posted last... it is entrelac... it is a debbie bliss pattern... from her magazine... and it could possibly be the most difficult baby project i've ever undertaken. I am totally not a fan of the instructions - that might just be me... i've been to the LYS twice for direction on the directions. I am rounding on the last row of full blocks.. and then need a row of triangles and the edging - and it needs be done by the weekend upcoming....

... so in a nutshell, that is where i've been - sitting knitting - not doing a lot on line in general, since this is not a "knit and surf" project. It is a labor of love and I do not begrudge one single moment of knitting it - it is a gift for a very special person - but i will say it has certainly ... CERTAINLY... taken my concentration to a new level.

i don't have photos of my actual project to share yet... as it is impossible to lay out whilst it remains on the circular needle... links to the ravelry page for this project - and to one of the people who have knitted the project - http://www.flickr.com/photos/23762979@N03/4841134393/in/photostream - the project as knitted by mel83 - her photos kept me sane when i couldn't figure out where i was headed next -

soooo not that this is a reason to be silent so long.. but i have been... and needed to explain.... lol