Nuclear Knits: Where knitting is the bomb!

We went down to meet with the fiber tech people today. They showed us a lot of our stuff and I got to pick out some yarn to bring home. There is something about looking through my own stuff and getting some skeins of yarn that just - well it makes me feel like Christmas, birthday and happiness all in one. Thank goodness stuff survived!

I feel like I'm knitting at a snails pace. But, I've finished one sock and am casting on for sock two. My goal will be to have sock two done by April 15. Possible? I sure do hope so.

I talked with the fiber guy again and some of my clothing, fabric for quilting and yarn/roving will be going to the dump. He said there was nothing they could do to save it (sort of makes me feel like crying). I still haven't seen a list of exactly which yarn isn't making it ... my fingers are crossed that it is crap yarn. My father's girlfriend asked for black socks and I've been dying to make the Bella Mittens. So, I ordered some yarn just for it. Bella Mitten Yarn Black sock yarn. Now I just need to get my butt over to Anne's house to use her ball winder. You never notice how much you love it until you don't have one!

In the end with 165 yards I made 2.5 dishcloths. The small one I'll use as a kitchen scrubby.

Project Details: Started March 2nd. Finished March 18th (with a house fire in the middle there). This cloth was actually covered in ash when I took it out of the house. Seems to have washed up nightly. This is a Lana Hames pattern and took ~ half a skein of Hemp for Knitting Allhemp6 (which runs about 165 yards). I'm making the second one right now. The final dimensions were 8" square. Once washed and dried the hemp gets a bit softer and feels much nicer on the skin!

Ah ... feeling good about a new package of yarn showing up. Glorious wonderful yarn. I love fiber!