Busy Hermit

There have been many different things demanding my attention the last few weeks.
A computer that consumed much of that time, yet refused to be fixed. (A replacement has since been ordered.)
There was a bed to be put together:

Seedlings to be planted and tended in the living room in preparation of a Spring planting:

A year of socks planned out (yes there are several green skeins, I like green. No all thirteen are not shown, I picked a few more later. I need to take more pictures):

As well as three different sweaters put on the needles:

All of which happen to be top down, v-neck style sweaters, but three very different patterns.

Closets have also been re-organized, which paired nicely with a bit of a wardrobe re-do.  Sadly, a good portion of the re-do involves sewing.  Sewing which has been sitting out on my dining room table for the better part of a month waiting for me to finish work on the (now retired) computer.

I'll get to it.  Soon.

It's only February?

January was... a lot. My laptop battery began to die. Obtained a new one. The heating element went out on my dryer.  Bought a new heating element and replaced it myself.  My printer started arguing with me yesterday. Still need to sort that out.  Darling Son needed his bed frame replaced.  A new bed frame is on it's way.
Even my knitting was not spared.  Apparently my gauge was off, waaaay off on this Tea Leaves shawl

I ran out of yarn.  I bought another skein, Malabrigo Arroyo in the Coffee Toffee colorway.  And proceeded to run out of yarn.  The shawl was ripped, re-cast on smaller needles and at some point I will take a picture of the finished item...once it's blocked.
While I was waiting for the yarn for the shawl, I cast on something else; of course.

That is the start of a V-neck Boxy in Stroll Tonal, Thunderhead colorway.  Because it seemed entirely sensible at the time to cast on a huge, fine gauge sweater as a filler project.

I also wound the yarn and swatched for the Auspice shawl that will be my 2018 Ravellenics project.

That is actually the called for yarn in the pattern.  Not something I normally do, but the yarn was so incredibly pretty!  It's Northbound Knitting in their merino/silk fingering, Tanqueray colorway.

As it's a whole week till the official cast on time for the Ravellenics; I cast on a Radiant Dragon in my first skein of Junkyarn in her Sophie colorway.  I would show you pictures, but the yarn was so lovely when it arrived yesterday afternoon it was wound and cast on by the time dinner was done.  Eventually I will be willing to put it down long enough to photograph it.  Must. Keep. Knitting!