Project Wibble

Hello again.  Christmas over and new project flying not-so-stealth on the needles.  I dub it Project Wibble, because how else do you pronounce WIBL?  Observe: hat and mittens for Grandpa in China-->"Warm face, warm hands, warm feet" (sort of)-->"Wouldn't it be loverly"-->WIBL.  Yeah, my brain works in mysterious ways.  Sometimes even G-rated.  It's actually kind of boring (Project Wibble, I mean, not my brain), and I'm suffering from second sock syndrome like you wouldn't believe.  Does anybody besides my mother care precisely how many rows of 2x2 ribbing I crank out for the (pick up and knit bottom stitches to form double-thickness) cuff or where I start the thumb gusset or how long I make the stockinette section?  Maybe I should've started with the hat.  "Manly" beanie with ribbed edge?  OK, maybe not.  At least there's a deadline...which unfortunately means my lace projects (auction shawl, 30s-inspired tunic sweater) are relegated once again to the metaphorical back burner.  And again with the Tetris game that is my mental to-do list.  Really need to do a memory dump one day, reorganize my priorities, separate the wheat from the chaff and figure out what I actually want to do with that traveling shovel.  I think a STL Nano might have groaned at that one.

By the way, what in the world have I done with my "Procrastinate" cross-stitch?  Dalek on the loose?  Run for your lives.

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So...the good thing about being corporate (I mean, a private pediatrics practice is, in financial terms, a business) is the company-provided phone (for all those frantic parent calls on nights and weekends).  I got a new smartphone as a Christmas perk, and it's really quite nifty.  But that brings me to the bad thing about being corporate: I can't actually activate it.  Which means that for the next 14 hours or so, my smartphone functions as a camera and a computer, but not as an actual phone.  Which also means that I've been snapping pictures of my recent projects like there's no tomorrow.  The following comprises a (not exhaustive) list of finished projects that would very much like to proclaim the above statement, now that they're (finally) seeing the light of day.

This is the shocking pink dress challenge, completed for C+A's wedding (#3?) in August.







 I'm wearing the hat to commemorate my actual reception ensemble, which included said pink straw hat, extra-long pink "quartz" necklace, and large earrings.





There would have been pictures from the reception...if I hadn't been having too much fun at the Children's Museum...

Next, Laminaria shawl, pattern courtesy of knitty.com, which did not get done in time for CMC auction.  Oh well, nice Christmas present for Mummy then.  She likes blue, right?  Right?

And last, but not least, mushroom fingerless gloves.  Well, of course, my dad has to have a knitted present too, right?  These came from the superwash merino I would've made a pair of manly gloves from to sell to random stranger at Starbucks.  Instead, I'm picking on certain computer geek tendencies (you can type while wearing them!) and old-school video game tendencies (it...almost looks like a Mario mushroom?).  Pattern courtesy of...me.  Don't ask which end it came out of.

What next, you may (not) ask?  Recreating Claudette?  Lace shawl #???  More dress designs?  Stay tuned, and try not to get too impatient!  (Or something.)