Snow Day!

Well yesterday (Wed, Feb 5th) was a snow day! Which, sadly,  when one is an adult snow days aren't necessarily as fun as when you are a kid... since I basically just worked from home. But, lucky for me it was a really quiet day work-wise since everyone else stayed home as well, and a lot of people had to spend most of the day shoveling 9" of snow. 

So, since I was required to be near my laptop to check emails and see if anything needed updating I figured I might as well keep my hands busy and cast on a small knitting project that was easy enough that I wouldn't have to focus on it too much. So, I whipped up this little bear sweater! This bear will get donated through my knitting guild to the local emergency responders to hand out to kids when they respond to calls. (our guild gets the bears donated to us and then we knit them sweaters to make them extra special) 

I went with Green for this bear's sweater since I thought it would go well with this bear's plaid bow tie, which has a bit of green in it. Have I mentioned I love super quick projects? I always feel a sense of victory when I can finish something in one day. 

Once I finished the little sweater, I went back to working on my Peeta socks. I'm not going to lie I have a case of second sock syndrome coming on and I'm having trouble working on this second sock... But I did make some progress yesterday, finishing the first set of wheat tops on the leg.

And then, since I made what I felt was pretty good progress on my socks, I rewarded myself by casting on something new, because I just couldn't help it. 
This is the cast on and first row for a Ceadar leaf Shawlette. The pattern and yarn I've had almost as long as I had the yarn for the Peeta socks... this one was added to my queue back in 2012 (thanks ravelry of keeping track of that for me). 

So I'm now going to bribe myself into making progress on my socks so that I can work on this shawl (which will end up being more of a scarf I think once it's done). This is another new to me yarn, so I'm excited to work with it and it's super soft! Ball and Skein "Sofia" and the 10% Cashmere is lovely! To think yet another yarn I could have bought more of if I'd just used it sooner...sigh it's a hard life I lead having so much yarn in my stash ;)