Shut Up And Knit

Technically, this is supposed to be a knitting blog. After all, I am a knitter, I knit every day, I buy yarn and think about knitting when I'm not knitting and squeeze in time to read knitting blogs. I LOVE knitting! But to read my blog, you wouldn't think I do much knitting at all. The truth is, I'm a slow knitter who doesn't have much free time to knit. Therefore, my FO production rate is embarrassingly low. I try to distract visiting knitters from this fact by putting lots of gratuitous non-knitting pictures in my posts, and yammering on about all kinds of other things. However, every once in a while, I try to post actual knitting content that is either a new project or a UFO that is showing significant progress. Today is one of these rare occurances.

First off, I have finished 4 knitted squares for Greensburg and 1 "Group hug" crocheted square. It was kind of fun to pick up the crochet hook again after an absence of several years, but my heart still belongs to knitting!




My Saturday knitting group from church have been busy making squares - 25 so far!



I cast on the Baby Albert jacket (and actually finished the bottom section today):


Here is the yarn for my next 2 baby items:



The white and green Debbie Bliss Cashsoft will get knit up into the Heartbreakingly Cute Baby Kimono. And the pretty deep rose will be knit up into this:

Elizabeth Zimmerman's Baby Surprise jacket
(I borrowed this picture off the 'nets so you can see what it will theoretically look like)

Hopefully this is enough knitting content to tide the blog over for another 23 posts or so.
But don't worry - there'll still be plenty of gratuitous content.

Bitsy BonTon is really an alien trapped in a little cat suit