Yay for Lost and Found and conductors who will bring stuff along for you! That's why I always stuff my gloves and hats and such in my bag when I take them off.

Pretty hat!

I'm gonna go to Knit Night tonight! (okay,it's not called that, it's the Umschlag Treffen, held every month in Vienna)
Me and 2 other girls from the knit meeting 2 weeks ago decided we need to get together more often, and then another girl said "hey, it's knit night this week!" and we all said HELL YEAH! and so we're going.
Good thing: get together with knitters, knit, have a blast
bad thing: the girls who organise the knit night also spin and dye their own yarn. Sock yarn. And they do sell that on knit nights! I don't know if I can resist the call of Leicester-wool...

Also, I get to buy a swift! Wooooo! For about a third of the original price:D

Sounds good!

I've finished the front of my niece's cardigan. And have started on the first sleeve.

Oi, I got lucky- an Austrian raveler is de-stashing and had some very nice things in her bag at Knit Night last night. I happened to get to dive in first and scored: a skein of Malabrigo Lace. Mmmmmmmmalabrigo. It's so lovely! 2 skeins of Debbie Bliss Andes- even nicer, if you can believe that. 35% mulberry silk, 65% Baby Alpaca, in dark purple. and one skein of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock:D Lucky me! It was unfortunately hot pink, but I had blue and purple Kool Aid at hand, so I dyed yarn for the first time- in the microwave! It went well, the skein is drying now, the winding will be a pain, as it got a bit tangled..but well. It's purple/magenta-beautiful!

Baby blanket finally finished! Will post pics after I get all the ends woven in and it's blocked.

Next to conquer heel turns on toe-up socks. To date, mine have all come out wonky. Top down, no problemo; heel up, looks awful.

Sahi wrote:

I still haven't tried socks. Just finished the first sleeve (of my niece's cardigan) last week and have started on the second. One more sleeve and the collar left to do.

Socks are not as difficult as they appear. Now sweaters, I haven't tried. All that shaping -- my increases and decreases aren't as tidy as I would like them.

I've just kept myself from going to buy more fabric. I've told myself sternly to finish some projects first.

And I'm working really hard on finishing my knitting project too. The second sleeve is one third done.

Big box of yarn arrived yesterday. Now, fer shure, I cannot buy anymore until I've used some of what I have.

*admires Sahi's sleeves*

Reminds me of a joke: Where do sargents keep their armies?

Up their sleevies!!!!

The battle with the heel on a toe-up sock continues. I finally conquered it, only to drop a stitch on the second-to-last row that for the life of me I cannot figure how to pick up. It was part of a K3tog decrease. Also, I cannot figure out how to rip back to a previous row, 'cause each row ends with a K3tog decrease up to the middle and then each row starts with a YO increase. I cannot get those increases and decreases back on the needles correctly, so I have to frog all the way back to the beginning (again).

It's all good. My stitches are getting quite even.

Also, I found evidence of a carpet beetle or two in my stash. Heat kills 'em, in all stages of development (cold only kills the hatched ones). So, put the whole lot in a black plastic bag and put them in the trunk of my car. Summer in the South will deal with those little critters.

Hopefully, the heat treatment and sealed bins will have them all sorted.

Toe-up socks are a bit more fiddily. I like the toes better, as my kitchner stitching still isn't where I would like it.

About three quarters done with the second sleeve of my niece's cardigan. Then I only have to knit the collar and put it all together. I've already bought the buttons.

sisterdew wrote:

I've recently done a shawl in Wollmeis...

I've only one thing to say about your shawl . . . WOW!