Russet Lodge Custom Knits

 Well, the summer is flying by.  I haven't had as much time to craft lately.  Real life stuff is getting in the way of my hobbies, but I do have a few progress updates. The Hue Shift Afghan is stalled again.  I started working on that last bit of section three, but ran out of one of the yarn colors with only a square and a half to go.  This necessitated a dig through the project bag where I've been tossing all the ball bands since I started the project lo these many years ago.  There seemed to be two labels for the two different shades of yellow, but I had no idea which one was the darker one I have enough of and which the lighter one I used up.  Looking on the website made it hard to tell which was lighter too, but I think I figured it out, and of course had to buy some clearance sock yarn while I was at it.  Let's not talk about how much is already in my stash. I started the afterthought heel on the Lizard Ridge socks.  I have a high instep so I always worry there won'

 Hi all!  I'm having a small amount of panic about the fact that it's the middle of July already.  I have a big SCA event in late August involving making a bunch of new garb, and I haven't gotten nearly enough done on that yet.  But that's for another day and another blog.  Here's my knitting updates for the past two weeks. Work on the Miss BB sweater is going on, slowly but surely.  The sleeves about five inches each on them and I've started the shaping.  So far so good. The Hue Shift afghan has had a minor tragedy.  Here's what I wrote about it on Facebook: "A sad story: many years ago I started knitting myself a rainbow blanket. It is worked in four sections. I made the first section, then took several years off. I made the second section, then the third, and started the fourth. The other day I decided to look at the pattern. I had started making the fourth section backwards. Okay, I'm less than 25% done with that one, I can rip it out. I g