Finishing Socks!

I finished another pair of socks!  They are another set of self patterning socks knit from Knitpicks Felici - i love this yarn!  They have recently come up with new Felici colors...I'm so tempted!!!  But i'm sticking to my yarn diet and I've told myself that when I finish knitting the 10 pairs of socks from my resolutions list, I am allowed to purchase some more sock yarn.

I had also promised more pictures of my Soleil tank after it had been blocked and here they are:

As it turns out, this may be one of the best constructions of tops to properly flatter my figure.  Amy of stash, knit, repeat has been blogging a series called Fit to Flatter that has been very helpful and it is helping me make better choices in the patterns I pick out.

Now, I'm going to work on knitting one of Amy's other designs - a sock pattern that is awesome.  Unfortunately my choice of colors is just terrible at showing Amy's wonderful design but i'm going to keep chugging along on it anyway.

Summer Tank

I started the Soleil Tank last May but put it aside probably when i started working on the Aeolian shawl.  Last week I joined a Ravelry group dedicated to finishing the UFO's and they have lots of fun knitters on the group and they are very encouraging.  I pulled out the Tank from it's bag, fluffed it out and figured out where i was in the pattern.  Once i did, i realize just how close i was to finishing - within 3 days i had the thing completed!

Here are some pictures of it unblocked:

The pictures aren't fantastic because of the harsh light but i'll be putting up more pictures when it has been blocked anyway.

This sweater qualifies for 1 of 2 sweaters to be knit up for this year's resolution.

Sweater Planning

One of my absolutely favorite shows is Firefly which is a scifi show and is totally awesome and everyone should watch it even if you aren't a scifi person.  The show stands up on it's own as a good show - scifi or otherwise.  Go rent it, netflix it or get it whatever way you get shows.

So the design for my Aran Sweater is inspired by this show and the main cable panel on the front, back and the sleeves looks like the ship - as much as a pretty cable can look like a ship.  The sweater is actually modeled after a sweater that a character wears on the show.  The details can be found here.

This will be my first geek project!  I know Jayne's Hat (from the same show) is a much smaller and quicker project but i just like the thought of doing this one more.  First because Jayne's Hat requires me to order more yarn for it in appropriate colors and second because i dont see myself wearing a bright orange hat - no matter how geeky awesome it is!  I will definitely still knit one of these but probably not anytime soon.