THE PAST TWO WEEKS

I finished something! I finished something! It's a baby sweater for my nephew who was born less than two weeks ago. OK, everybody... "Awwwww."

I actually meant for the two colors to be reversed. Oh well.

It's the raglan sweater from the Debbie Bliss Baby Knits Book. This sweater went really fast- about two weeks. I have decided that I am going to start choosing smaller patterns so that I can knit them faster and feel some accomplishment sooner. I also bought Scarf Style which will provide plenty of smaller projects.

In other news, Dan and I had a lot of fun in California. We started out in LA and visited some friends in Ventura and Santa Monica, shopped in Beverly Hills and went to some bars in West Hollywood. We then rented a car and drove up the coast...

it really is like a postcard

and stopped at Hearst Castle. We continued through Big Sur to Monterey where we went to the aquarium to see some cool jellyfish.

Ooooo, black-lit jellyfish are pretty

After that, we continued on to San Francisco where, among other things, I shopped at three yarn shops. The first was Imagiknit close to Castro Street. This had a lot of great yarn. I bought four skeins of Debbie Bliss Cashmerino in orange, and some cool Gedifra yarn called Byzanz which will make a great gift scarf.

click to see the little sparkly bits

This shop was well stocked, but nobody offered to help me. The next shop I went to was Urban Knitting Studio in the Hayes Valley. I really loved this shop. There was a nice yarn selection but it wasn't overwhelming. Plus, the design/architecture of the shop was tres cool. I bought one skein of Blue Sky Worsted and two skeins of Blue Sky 100% Alpaca.

I then went Downtown to Art Fibers. This shop only carried yarn created by the owners. There was some great yarn called Origami that was spun with paper and something else which I thought about buying, but I guess I just didn't know what I could use it for. I left this shop with nothing because I really didn't like anything.

After SF we went to Oakland to visit two of Dan's college friends, Josh and Rebeca. Josh knits a little bit, and he asked me to help him learn how to purl.

Go, straight boy, go!

He's left handed, so it was sort of hard to reverse everything. But I think he got the hang of it...

Comments

[MONIQUECopeland21]

It's understandable that cash can make people autonomous. But how to act if someone has no money? The only one way is to receive the home loans or sba loan.

[joline 103 idées from france !]

What beautiful knits you do ! i love your colors and your yarn !

[Rodrigo]

hey, could you explain to me what is a 'sparkly bits'?

i search about it in wikipedia, dictionary, google, but.. =/

thanks

[sangroncito]

I pass imagiknit in S.F. everyday on my daily walk to the gym. I don't knit but it looks like a cute store.

[Mushlette]

Left-handed? Reverse everything? Are you saying he knits backwards? (I'm left-handed, and I taught myself how to knit out of a book. I didn't learn until much later than some lefties knit mirror-image. I can't even fathom it, but there's a pic right on your blog implying that some lefties *do* knit backwards!)

[liz]

glad you guys had fun. i think we were in sf at the same time!

hey you must check this site out: http://www.nakedandangry.com

and, we must do slims sometime soon....

[dan]

actually, josh's knitting might predate drew's own knitting addiction - i know he's been doing it for a coupla years. But it was fun to see my guy knitting with someone else - I've never seen him knit with someone else, let alone another male knitter.

[sean]

Wonderful sweater! I'm going to have to check out the book!

[Kirsti]

That's a very cute sweater. I've been looking for something simple and quick to make for my nephew - you may have helped me find it!

And well done on spreading the knitting addiction! Great photos too.