I can smell summer breezes

Okay, not really. However, the inside of my car was warm this afternoon after school, which means the sun is getting stronger, which means spring is coming. I'm so excited!
Even more exciting: I finished Lelah tonight. Well, I finished the body of the shirt. I need to put the elastic in, and find an appropriate ribbbon, but other than that it's done. I have it blocking now. More accurately, I have it damp and laying flat right now, because I really don't know how to block straight knitting, let alone anything knit in the round. (After 11 years I should know this)
I have a few projects I need to make now:
Tonight I cast on for Everlasting Bagstopper (1) I hope to finish it soon. I'm just making it with some extra orange and pink Sugar 'n Cream.
Then I need to make and earflap hat (2) for my friend Emily, because she asked for one for her birthday.
After that I'm probably making dishcloths (3) for another friend for college; in her school's colors, too.
Then I want to make part of a spring cardigan (4) I've seen, but I'm only going to make the bust area, and I'm going to shorten the sleeves to make it a cute little shrug.
For some quick knitting I'm going to make the Flying Spaghetti Monster (5) eventually for my philosophy class.

Quit a list. As always

Project Links:
(1) http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/everlasting-bagstopper
(2) http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/knitted-toque-with-earflaps
(3) http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/back-to-school-2
(4) http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/printed-silk-cardigan
(5) http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/flying-spaghetti-monster-2

I wish it were summer!

And as such, I'm only knitting with cotton yarn. I've given up on the sweater dress until I finish the Lelah top. I just did two pattern repeats tonight while watching a movie. It's probably about five inches long now. I can already see that I'm going to need to do more repeats than stated in teh pattern. I like my tops slightly longer. Who knows, maybe I'll just keep going and make it a tunic. That way I can wear it as a cover up at the beach, and a top for the clubs.
Actually, I don't think I have the patience or the yarn for that. I've done five repeats total, and I think I'm going to need to do atleast seven more, and that it just blowing my mind right now, because,as strange as it sounds, I don't want to knit right now.
I think it has to do with Christmas. All I did for months before Christmas was knit and knit and knit. I made presents I hated (which was my first mistake) and didn't work on anything for me. Then in that post-Christmas excitement of getting interchangeable needles I cast on more projects than I can deal with at once and I'm just overwhelmed. I'm hoping that by finishing Lelah I'll get some confidence back, and I'll be onto working on the sweater dress again in no time.

Bye Bye Darcy

I frogged it the other day in favor of Lelah, because who doesn't want a knitted, lacy, empire waisted, cotton top for summer?
The only problem? I can't start knitting in the round to save my poor little life. I twist my stitches everytime, no matter how hard I try not to.
So it's also been frogged three times.
I spent last night in recup. mode knitting a garter stitch scarf on sz 13 needles. The colorway is gorgeous. It's purple and brown, and green, and yellow. It's so earthy, and matches my peacoat perfectly. I have another skein of the yarn, and am currently trying to decide what to do with it.

Pacing=Key

I can't decide between the DROPS dress and Mrs. Darcy, sooo I've decided to do both. I'm going to work on Mrs. Darcy at school, and the dress at home. Problem solved? Not really. But it satiates me for now