Vacation = Knitting

I got so much knitting done over the past few days! But it all pales in comparison, really, because last week on Thursday I got harlotted -- that is, the Yarn Harlot mentioned me on her blog (did you know she has a Wikipedia Entry? That is just cool). At any rate, the net result was a huge influx of viewers and lots of comments from new people! So thanks to anyone new who's still hanging around, I try to answer comments but not everyone has an available email for replying.

Travelling Poms! Here we are on the Don Valley Parking Lot, trying to leave the city ever so slowly.


Pom again, a bit further along down the 401 and I've completed 1.5 repeats on the leg.


And yes, I finished them! With more than a full day to spare -- this is my Aunt Mae modelling them on Sunday afternoon on the patio out back of their house.


Doesn't she look happy? I love this picture!

But it wasn't all Pomatomus all the time this weekend. On friday I started and finished a completely new project -- a warm toque for my Uncle Jim:

Begun on the Don Valley before I switched to the Pomatomus to take advantage of the natural light during the daylit part of our drive.


I finished it up after our arrival and my uncle was thrilled -- and he insisted on a Pompom to finish it off! You can see it's both blue & gold, because I ran out of navy blue and had to work in a bit of gold in just the pompom itself.

The gold was along in case I ran out of navy blue on the first toque, but in fact I ended up with enough to knit this adorable child's toque too:

I'm torn between sending it to my tiny niece at the same time as the golden section baby blanket or hanging onto it for the next Dulaan.

And finally, my sister Andrea models some knitwear:

Clad in all the knitting gifts I gave to people this weekend -- she's wearing the Purple Alpaca Scarf I knit as a gift for her, as well as the toque for Jimmy and the Hot Pink Pomatomuses on her hands. Oh, and a pair of earrings I got for her in Mahone Bay in June. Isn't she gorgeous?