New Year

Onto 2011. New Year's Eve was good, Notre Dame won their bowl game, and then we celebrated with the kids after dinner. We went out to the driveway for sparklers and poppers.
Of course we were properly attired with hats and tiaras!
Sparklers are fun, even if to a 3 year old they're a bit scary at first.
The family shot.
And one of the few pictures of me from the whole week. Like I said, the week was fun, and loud, and crazy and busy, but really good. New Year's day, I watched some football, and started some new knits, before heading over to Bridget's for dinner and games with Kaylee. Sunday, the Steelers beat up on the Browns and locked into the playoffs (woohoo!), then Monday it was back to work. Games this week, Tuesday and Wednesday night for basketball, and starting today we're hosting a double hockey tournament - double woohoo! So this weekend will be a bit insano. Been getting lots of knitting done though, which is awesome.
Except that I've stalled out on the sleeves of the Vaila sweater. Seriously, I know I've complained before, but purling in the round - oy! They're about halfway done, and I've been distracted by all the new pretties, which is very bad of me. Oh well, it'll get done eventually.

Onto the new stuff, which is way more exciting.
That is the start of the Delancey Cardigan. Very interesting construction, hard to see how it all works out to be a straight edge, but it does. The yarn is awesome, it's KnitPicks Capra, which has a bit of cashmere that just makes it yummy. I've actually had to force myself to put this down and work on other stuff.
Like the start of this sweater, it's a design by a pal on Ravelry, that is based off of the sweater that Hermione wears in the new HP movie (that I still haven't seen, but told mom that we should plan on going this Sunday). That's just the hood, it gets more exciting later. And I'm actually about 12" in now, just about done with the hood, but I was too lazy to take more pictures today.

I've got 2 other projects I've started this week, but I'll save those for next week. I'm trying to be better about blogging a little more regularly, we'll see how it goes. And like I said, I'm too lazy to take new pictures. But I do have a bit of sad news to report.
King Arthur has passed on. Miss Aubrey did a botched decapitation job on him on Christmas Eve. He is now Nearly Headless Arthur. I obviously need to be a little more childproof when making toys - but I've got plans. Have a good weekend!