The Six Balls of Cento

My knitting goal for 2010 is to not add anything to my stash. That does NOT mean that I'm not going to buy any yarn! It means that any yarn I buy or use, I must use up completely. I must add NOTHING to my stash bins this year. In that spirit, I present you with...

The Six Balls of Cento (With my deepest and most sincere apologies to Frederic Austin...)

With the first ball and a quarter of Cento, I knit myself for me...
The Knit Picks Sideways Hat!



With half of the second ball of Cento, I knit myself for me...
a wristwarmer that is now a pencilholder cover
and the Knit Picks Sideways Hat!



With the third ball of Cento, I knit myself for me...
The knitty Edgar Scarf (first half!)
a wristwarmer that is now a pencilholder cover
and the Knit Picks Sideways Hat!



With the fourth ball and a couple yards of Cento, I knit myself for me...
The knitty Edgar Scarf (second half!)
The knitty Edgar Scarf (first half!)
a wristwarmer that is now a pencilholder cover
and the Knit Picks Sideways Hat!



With the fifth ball of Cento, I knit myself for me..
THE TWO-ONE COWL!
The knitty Edgar Scarf (second half!)
The knitty Edgar Scarf (first half!)
a wristwarmer that is now a pencilholder cover
and the Knit Picks Sideways Hat!





With three-quarters of the sixth ball of Cento, I knit myself for me...
a pair of Earthy Wristwarmers
THE TWO-ONE COWL!!
The knitty Edgar Scarf (second half!)
The knitty Edgar Scaraf (first half!)
a wristwarmer that is now a pencilholder cover
and the Knit Picks Sideways Hat!



With about a quarter of the sixth ball of Cento, I knit myself for me...
a condom for my digital camera
a pair of Earthy Wristwarmers
THE TWO-ONE COWL!!
The knitty Edgar Scarf (second half!)
The knitty Edgar Scarf (first half!)
a wristwarmer that is now a pencilholder cover
and the Knit Picks Sideways Hat!



and this is what I have left (14.5 yards - I measured it). I think I should burn it before it starts multiplying again! Unless...anyone know what I could do with 14 yards of Cento???



My photographer's assistant says, "Are we done with this yet? I want lunch and a bellyrub!"



More later...recovering from Cento overload (I really do love this yarn, but I swear it breeds in knitting bag!)...

No, I haven't been buried in the snow...not quite, at least

Color me embarrassed for letting my brand new blog sit idle for an entire week. It's not that I've been swamped with other activities. Ok...Tuesday...I went to the grocery at 6:30am to buy stuff to make vegetable beef soup (my husband's Hungarian grandmother's recipe), came home, cleaned the house, including vacuuming and mopping, did 7 loads of laundry, made the soup (one hour just chopping vegetables!), and shoveled the front porch, driveway and sidewalk and cleaned off the car after the five MORE inches of snow we got on top of the ten inches that fell a week ago. Yeah...not much time for blogging that day, though I did finish the Knit Picks Sideways Hat and wore it outside for the snow shoveling - it kept me toasty warm!!!

Saturday morning, my husband and I went out to dig out from that first ten inches. Here are a few fun pics of me, sweet Wilbur, and my bodacious snow angel.







Also on Saturday, I finished the Pretty Thing. It ended up being both too long and too wide to be a true neckwarmer thingie, but it folded over nicely into a cute little collar. Good thing, too, because I hated knitting this thing. Don't know why...it wasn't difficult, I liked the yarn I was working with...it just didn't click for me. The very cool thing is it perfectly matches three cotton sweaters that I never wear. It's like they've been hanging out in the closet just crying out for that little knitted lace collar to go with them. Gotta love it!!!

Since I'm new to this blogging thing and haven't figured out all the ins and outs and etiquettes, I want to thank Jo Ann from JoKnitWits Funky Life for stopping by to comment. Hope you and that gorgeous Sawyer boy are doing great!!!

And...since I know he pops in here to read about what I'm doing now that I don't talk yarn with him as much anymore, here's a shoutout to my beloved hubby, Pete. His birthday was Monday, and we celebrated very low-key this year, but that doesn't mean that he isn't the light of my life, the parmesan on my spaghetti and the catalyst for every good and wonderful thing that has happened to me since the day we met. Happy birthday, sweetie, I loves ya!!!!

Tonight I will be casting on for my first ever Ravelympics. I'll be competing with Team Knitgang in the Scarf Super G and the Stash Compulsory Dance, making a lovely lace scarf using yarn that has been in my stash since about 1985 (really!!!!).

So...what's on YOUR needles?????