progress

well I haven't been on to update in a while but I haven't really had much to talk about I guess. I'm still slowly working on my first soaker....I'm a little over half done now. one thing I can say about knitting is that it is a craft of patience....something I'm gonna have to get more of if I ever wanna finnish a project. I haven't done any sewing lately either. I guess I've just been enjoying my summer and trying to keep up with my ds who has recently taken up walking (and sometimes running) I'm off on vacation to the beautiful Oregon Coast in 3 days so hopefully I'll come back refreshed and inspired for some new projects.....either way I'm sure that we are gonna have a fabulous time there ;)

OK let's give it a whirl!!!

I've started my first soaker!!! HOORAY!! I'm so proud of myself, I even made changes to the pattern like making it a little smaller and using stockinette stitch instead of garter...these are somewhat simple changes but this is my first project to I'm pretty stoked. anyway I'm using a free vintage pattern I found online so it's knitted flat instead of in the round but I was having a hard time finding the right size of circular needles locally and was too impatient to wait so I figure these are my practice and then the next ones I do will be in the round...anyways here is how far I am so far (it's hard to get the time to knit with a busy 1-year-old but hopefully I'll continue to get faster)

(the colour is a much deeper earthier orange then it looks here, it's called Paprika so that gives you an idea)