Update!

Only 11 months since my last post. Let's check in on the state of the knitting, shall we?

On the needles:

Husband sweater. Mr. Husband asked for a sweater - machine washable, and basic.  I'm knitting this from Ella Rae Classic Heathers Superwash, using the set-in sleeve recipe from Ann Budd's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns.  The color is darker, richer. Oh, and the back is now 15" long.  So I've made some progress since the photo was taken.

Augusta Cardigan. I have had this yarn for six years, and now is the time to knit it.  It's 100% alpaca, Peruvian Tweed, held double throughout.  There is much to say about this sweater, but not this post.

 

In Dreams Shawl.  A beautiful lace pattern, knit from an apparently uncapturable shade of purple in Knit Picks Glass lace.  I am omitting the 5000 beads.  This has been mostly set aside as I get distracted by the above sweaters.

Pink sock. A movie theatre sock (so easy I can knit it in the dark), with an afterthought heel.  Knit from Knit Picks Chroma.

Recently finished:

Thrummed mittens.  Thrummed mittens for my walks to work in the winter.  Knit two at a time with Cascade Cloud 9, and roving from Picnic Knits, who has moved from the dying business to the designing business.  I kept the color changes in the roving lined up, more or less.  Very very fluffy.

 

Gaptastic Cowl.  Ann, owner of the fantastic new yarn store in town, Yarn Folk, knit up a GAP-tastic cowl sample, and I think there's been an outbreak of them around here.  I knit this up in less than a week from two skeins of Plymouth Baby Alpaca Grande.  That stuff is like heaven to knit with.  So soft, so squishy, so wonderful.  

Running:  

North Olympic Discovery Marathon.  Back in June I ran my first ever marathon.  And I finished it in a time of 5:11:43.  I'll count that as a victory.  I'm pictured here eating the best croissant I've ever had.  I hurt for days, but I've never had a grape popsicle as amazing as the one I had after I finished running.

I kind of fell off the training wagon since then, but have my eye on a local marathon at the beginning of April...  Time will tell whether or not I go for it.  But if I do, training will start the first week of January!  Not that I've drafted out a long run schedule or anything.