Triangles times three

Summer ended. Fall came and went. Winter blew in. The first snow fell. There was Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years. I went to Austin three times (wow, three times in five months...). I drove to Rochester and back, twice. I made 48 pairs of earrings. I turned another year older. I lost 30 pounds - on purpose. Nothing written.

I'm not turning over any new leaves, nor I have I made a New Year's resolution related to writing. I just finally have time and some knitting. A combination of events that seemed to be pretty rare during the last five months.

Somewhere in those months, I made three triangles (and a hat and cowl, but that's another post).  I'm not sure what the attraction was.  Maybe short projects?  Easy projects?  Ones for which I already had the yarn? Justifiable procrastination from the the two cardigans I have on the needles right now? Anyway, I knit the Baktus Scarf (with a yarn over row), the Twin Leaf Shawl, and the Aestlight Shawl.  Sorry for the washed out photos; the light is weird at this time of year and I haven't figured it out.

Over Christmas, spent in Austin, I did acquire a lot of yarn. It must have been the combination of knitting friends and easily accessible yarn stores. Well that and the fact that Hill Country Weavers is one of the few brick-and-mortar stores in the country selling Shelter. My dining room table looks like this:

Didn't I say sometime in August that I had a great new desk which was going to allow me to actually eat at my dining room table? So much for that idea.