Ravelry - I'm in!

I got my invite last week, I don't remember what day exactly, it's been kind of a blur! Anyhow I have been adding projects and taking pictures of my yarn since then (I'm LesleyKnits). I love how you can really see exactly what yarn you've got. And it also helped me to see exactly how long I let particular projects sit!

I had put Bronty on the back burner while finishing other things and when I went to add him to my project list I realized that I started on him NINETEEN months ago! Crazy :P He is what should have been a project easily finished in a few nights (at least at the pace I was knitting 19 months ago) but for some reason I let him sit quietly in my knitting bag.

So of course as soon as I realized how long it had been I took the 40 minutes necessary to finish poor Bronty and here he is...



This was a project I started less than a year after starting to knit and had I known what I know now I would have knit him on smaller needles, you can see the stuffing very clearly even from a distance. Oh well!

I put Bronty where my son could see him when he got home from school and he was thrilled that Bronty was finally done!

I also pulled out a sock that I started earlier this year. The reason why the sock fell by the wayside - beside other projects taking over - is that the skein got horribly tangled. I don't know if that usually happens when you have a 400-yard skein of sock yarn but the other day I sat down and unraveled the whole thing. So now I'm making progress with the sock tucked in my purse. I even worked on it today while my daughter played in the mall playground. Here it is...



I've made a lot of progress on the sweater for my daughter since I last posted. I took this picture last week but I'm now on the 2nd sleeve.