Thanks to majorknitter Jen for the new Finishing Friday and Frogging Friday buttons and for the new Finish or Frog It group over at Ravelry.
I went through my stash and old WIPS like I said, and wrote a list of what I want to finish.
Yesterday I finished this swatch for the Walker Treasury Project. If you haven't read about this yet, you should go check it out. You can sign up to knit a swatch or swatches from any of the Walker Treasury books, take a photo of it, then post it to the Project. There are some beautiful swatches already done. Since the patterns were originally done mostly in black and white photos, it's wonderful to see them in color. It really brings out some of the finer details of the patterns to see them in color.
This was kind of a WIP that I hadn't yet started, but had a deadline for. When you sign up to knit a specific swatch, you get three months to do it and post it. I signed up in November to knit the Scroll Pattern from the first treasury of patterns, and Jan 12 would have been my three months. I had kept putting it off, not because i didn't want to do it, but I was trying to keep my focus on some of the other WIPS I have going before starting something else. Finally the other day I started on it and had it done the next day.
This was a fun one to knit up.
I knit it in some Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK that I had, on #6US needles (4mm)
The pattern is made up of 10 stitches plus 2.
This swatch has three repeats across, and two 18-row repeats vertically.
The full moon is shining on a beautiful winter wonderland tonight. We had three fresh inches of fluffy snow fall on top of all that icy, rainy mix on Wednesday. I hear we may get another 7-10" tomorrow. It truly is wintertime in the northeast.
Things I love...fluffy snow and my 4 wheel drive!
