Post One

Okay introductions first. My name is Ruth. I would call myself a intermediate knitter. I've  completed two small child size sweaters, quite a few socks, several dishcloths. I am an on again off again crocheter, usually whenever I take on a crochet project I require a book on crochet nearby so I can look up how to do a single, double or half double crochet or even treble crochet. I am trying to figure out how to spin my own yarn. I do some dyeing with Kool Aid.

So many things to do this month and now I've added another. I must be a little crazy. What do I have to do that one more thing is possible to tip over the balance in my life? you ask. Well other than knitting,  another hobby I have is writing. And last November I did my first dip into the world of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) I won that. March was Editing month and thanks to a particularly nasty cold or something I was so sick the last week well there was not much chance of closing the 11 to 50 hour gap. And now April is Script Frenzy, I did have two possible script ideas in my head. One well I wont' admit to here. but two was a vampire movie script based on the little stories I started when I didn't have internet I did write a little series of vampire stories on web pages. though A third idea has come up, based on my current real life dilemma between knitting and trying to write a screenplay in a month.  And now after listening to so many knitting podcasts on my ipod thinking I might try blogging about my knitting and crocheting. Oh another thing to do now that it's spring is planting, seed starting and gardening. So let's list this:

1. Script Frenzy
2. knitting
3. blogging
4. gardening

Okay that said and done. What am I working on?

Meadow Flowers shawl by Donna Kay from Knitter's Stash pictured above as the raspberry colored wool yarn
Flotsam and Jetsam Shawl No real pattern I sort of am making it up as I knit it. Lots of yos, ssks, sl1 k2tog psso overs. Also pictured above a variegated blue cotton yarn
Entrelac socks
Entrelac Scarf pattern from allisonknits

Finished Objects
prayer shawl knit with some acrylic  yarns in white and different shades of blue, then crocheted around the edges. pictured above.

On the Que
Aside from what I've got on my queue at Ravelry  I plan to knit a pair of socks this month using two skeins a neighbor gave me as a birthday present as part of a sock knit thing on one of the knitting podcasts I have subscribed to. with bright pinks purple and orange.

What I am listening to
 (podcasts)
Knitting in the Round
Knitcents
Electric Sheep
Knitmore Girls
plus several more.