Yup, it's knitting!

I finished my Unicorn Parallelograms shawl by Stephen West.  It needs a good blocking, but it's done.

I'll take a better pic once it's blocked.  The pattern uses Madelinetosh unicorn tails.  So much fun!

I've started plotting a new project using unicorn tails and other mini skeins.  This is my stash for the project so far.

I ended up scrounging around the other day and discovered various knitted items in the house.  For one thing, I was gobsmacked to discover (after first thinking that my sister had knitted the sweater) that I'd knitted a gansey style sweater once upon a time.  lol!

Don't ask me what pattern this is, cause I have no clue.  But I knitted it as my first real knitted thing, and if I do say so myself, it came out just fine!  I thought of it as a lace work sweater because of the trees having yarn overs.  Now all these years later, I look at it and think of it more as a gansey.  Maybe?  :D

Here is the sweater my sister knitted me way back when -- before I knitted the blue sweater above.

The colors are off in both pictures.  This is much more of a dark green than the picture shows.  Pretty, right?

And finally, I found the little knitted set my mother knitted for my sister (I think) when she was a toddler.

The color is much prettier in real life -- much less pink and more coral.  I love this outfit, don't you?

My mother taught both my sister and I to knit when we were young.  It didn't catch on with either of us.  Both of us re-taught ourselves as adults.  My sister gave up knitting years ago, which is sad.  I wish she would knit again.

Finally, since we're on a nostalgia kick, here is a pic of my sister and me (she's the older one on the left) when we were little.  This pic is part of a series of pictures my father took of us, each one with us wearing different hats -- cowboy hats, baseball hats, etc.

I still remember those dresses.  My mother would dress us in matching outfits.  Which meant I got to wear the same thing twice as long since I inherited my sister's clothes.  Sigh.

Thanks as always for stopping by and saying hi.  I hope everyone has a great week!