January 24th – 31st photos

I’m going a bit out of order to start with some yummy yarniness!  Lots more knitting this week, plus more taxes…..

24th + 30th handspun for myself! Wooo yeah!  It’s a self-striping single, mostly my hand-dyed bfl wool; haven’t named it yet, but it is for a specific project, so I’m excited to start knitting with it soon!  And then some swatching and the beginning of a project in this yummy orange yarn that Kate gave me:

25th finished knitting these the night before actually, then wove in the ends and photographed them in the morning.  My basic ninja mitts pattern, from a kit yarn (for sale on etsy through Trillium) – I saved one skein for myself when I made up the kits for sale, so I could kind of test out the kit and knit it exactly from the pattern (instead of improvising the number of rows, etc, how I’d normally make mitts):

26th riding in the car on the way to grab our buddies and head to trivia, on a rainy Portland night:

27th oh so many receipts, taxes taxes:

28th made some supercrazy nachos:

29th + 31st gathering a ton of materials for the class I was teaching the next day; today I mostly worked on the computer finishing up tax-related stuff, not photogenic, so I took a shot of these sweaters that I’ve just started taking apart to unravel:

And that’s it for January!  That first month of 2010 flew by so quickly!  I’m surprised I didn’t miss a day of this photos project – hopefully I can keep it up throughout the year!  February should be fun – Pete’s taking some time off his day job, to work more in his studio, and also so we can take a day trip or two and have some mini-vacation time here in pdx, so I should be taking some fun pictures!