WIPs june

Ok, so I'm finally caught up. More or less anyway.

As I mentioned a little earlier, JF is now away in Japan and has been for almost 2 weeks. I can't wait till he's back cause it really sucks being alone all day and night. The bright side of this is that is has allowed me to drive a lot more than I ever thought I would. You see back in April we invested in a new car. We decided together that it would be an automatic because I find the manual transmission to be unnecessarily complicated. I hadn't gotten to drive much because JF wanted me to get some practice while I was in Newfoundland (which I did) and then he would add me to the insurance. When I got back he kept forgetting to do it and we just kept putting off getting me to drive. When we found out that he would be going to Japan for 3 weeks we put everything into motion for me to get as much practice as possible so that I would be free to use the car while he was gone. I kind of thought that I would be the kind of person that just didn't like to drive. Apparently it was just because I really had never practiced enough. Since he's been gone I've even driven in Montreal and on the highways and I'm actually starting to enjoy myself while driving.

Anyway this is a knitting blog so I'll update you guys all on that. The first bit of knitting news is an FO which is actually a little older but it had to wait until a certain baby showed his face to the world. First of all I'd like to Congratulate Robyn on a second beautiful boy; Who I am falling in love with.

I also made Mackenzie a Trellis set:



Next is a very disappointing WIP now traded project due to an apparent mohair allergy.



I absolutely loved this and although I'm not sure I would've been able to wear it due to extreme warmth, I really enjoyed it and was enjoying knitting it as well. Unfortunately I realized while knitting it that my allergies were going crazy and it was the only thing that had changed. As soon as I stopped knitting it my allergies went back to normal as well. Fortunately I was able to give this to a good knitting friend, Madeleine (ravelry), who liked the colours, the yarn and the design.

Finally I decided to finally cast on Mona's Embossed Leaves (ravelry). I've been meaning to knit this pattern for a while, I just never got around to doing it. A while back I had bought some Cherry Tree hill from the girls at Ariadne in Mint Green. So I decided to cast on for my very own Embossed Mint Leaves socks!


I'm liking how they're knitting up, I am not liking the fact that I can't seem to memorize the pattern, but it's ok because they're knitting up fast despite this.

I'll leave you with a picture of Mackenzie and I since he is so darn cute.