I'm back

Wellll, I sure have taken quite a long break, haven't I?

I haven't even signed onto this blog since late January, and for that I apologize. I've had some stuff going on... mostly life - school, love life, working, etc.

I have... knitting "swings"... for lack of a better term. Yes, they are like mood swings. I will be completely absorbed in my knitting for about four months, and then out of no where I don't want to do it anymore. I can't explain it, but now my knitting swings are in favor of knitting.

I've been doing more getting back into my love of knitting more than actual knitting. In doing so, I've come to appreciate wool. Before I was fine using acrylic or wool/acrylic blend. Somehow, I made my way onto flickr and was looking through a lot of knitting pictures and decided that not only is wool natural and really nice to feel and wear, but it's also reeally nice to look at. The texture of the yarn is just amazing! I'm sure most of you already know that by now, though.

Unfortunately right now isn't a good time for me to be splurging on really nice wool, so I'll have to stick with the wool/acrylic blends (my favorite and easiest to purchase is Wool Ease by Lion Brand). However, that may change as I've just done some research and found a couple of LYSs that I might have to check for some decently priced wool.

Recently, I've been on a sock binge. Not a serious one, just something to pass the time. SSS has struck on both "pair" that I've knitted, but it doesn't bother me. I wasn't expecting to actually finish a pair anyway.

In my traversing of flickr pics, I happened upon Jared's blog BrooklynTweed. If you haven't been there. O.M.G. this guy is amazing. Not to mention he's a guy! We need more guy knitters out there! There is so much I love about his work. The natural color schemes for one, are exactly what I like. His photography just makes the work jump out at you and make you need to knit it.

Take, for instance, his Hemlock Ring Blanket. As a guy, I'm not big on lace, but this pattern (that he created/adapted (from a doily, no less!)) looks like a great blanket to have around, and also a great gift idea. This is definitely something I would be willing to put forth a big of cash for some nice wool.

He does a lot of sweaters, hats, and scarves which are basically my favorite things to knit. I already have a large queue of his things (most of which are his cardigans).

Enough about Jared (haha), back to me. Hopefully I will actually be posting some stuff here soon. I plan on doing a bit on my socks that I'm knitting (now that I'm thinking about it, they're really more or less practice using different techniques and stitch patterns, so I don't feel so bad that I have a bad case of SSS).

I'm rambling now, but keep checking back. There will be some stuff here, I promise.

Keep on knitting!