::Gasp!:: She's Blogging Again!

 

Yes, she is.  Blogging again, that is.  I took an unintended and unplanned leave of absence from the blog world, not for any particular reason and not really on purpose.  It just seemed that blogging was becoming more of a chore than something fun to do.  Many's the evening when I thought I might go downstairs to the computer and do a spot of blogging, but it just never seemed to come to pass.  Until today.

 

I haven't been blogging, but I have been stitching.  I finished Blackbird's "Beneath the Sunlit Sky":

 

 It's stitched on 40 count Pearled Barley from Lakeside Linens, with the called-for GAST and Weeks fibers.  I love the way it turned out; the colors in this one are so pretty.

I've also been playing with needles -- knitting needles, that is.  My goal is to make a pair of socks, but I've been working on my knitting skills this summer with dishcloths and haven't gotten up the nerve yet to tackle knitting in the round.  Here's one of my dishcloths, partially complete:

I have a ball of yarn and some double-pointed needles to use for a cloche before I have a go at socks.  The hat pattern calls for circular needles, but the lady at the yarn shop in Shepherdstown told me it would probably be easier for me to use the DPNs because of the decreasing.  So, you knitters out there, what do you suggest?  The cloche is actually knitted in the round, not knitted flat then sewn together.  DPNs or circular?

Here's wishing everyone a good week and happy stitching!