foto fest

hmmm i brought my camera into work today. managed to get a few pictures out of it before the battery died.

here is the deco ribbon bag i have mentioned in previous posts. first is the full shot...

here is a close up shot of the seed stitch and color

i am still not liking the bag. haven't figured out what i am going to do with it. i really wish i liked it!

now for my current mexican wave project here is a shot (although blurry) of the right one.

currently working on the left one. i really like the way it turned out, but wish the colorway had not ended at the orangey part (added a pinkish band to the top of the thumb and arm so it wouldn't look so bad against my skin). last night i wound the second ball of mexican wave (even though the first arm warmer only took 2/3 of a ball). i was bummed to find that the color really didn't match the first one. so now i am going to make the second one and just see what happens. they won't match colorwise but i am ok with that. they are wacky anyways.

i have mentioned in a few posts that my job ends on Dec 31st. last week we officially closed the office although there are still 7 or 8 of us working. they say by the end of the month we will be working from home for the rest of the time. i am sooo looking forward to that. honestly, there isn't much work for me to do so i think i will have lots of time for knitting and holiday goodness. i am going to try and not stress over the fact that i won't have a job. thankfully, i do have a severance package that will delay my going on unemployment until february.

i keep doing little things to my blog each day. yesterday i whipped up a button for my site. i am thinking next week i will make a section for the blogs i read. with little work to do there are a lot of them!

saturday the new knitting/tea shop opens by me. i am excited to check it out. i hope they carry a good selection of yarn. if they do i will probably find myself being a regular there. a knitting shop within 2 miles, how lucky am i!!