Valentine's Day Fun

The weather here is not very much fun. We got lots of snow yesterday and I could barely make it out of my driveway in my Subaru Outback this morning. My husband works in a different county that had a level 3 snow emergency (only emergency personal on the roads) and my son's school/daycare was closed, so they got to stay home a second day. The city does not plow our streets, so we got no mail delivery today either. I don't think the morning paper showed up either. I was on the roads at 5:30 this morning and they were not that bad once I was driving on streets that had been plowed.

In knitting news, I finished a pair of socks:
Pattern: Waffle Rib from Sensational Knitted Socks (top down with heel flap)
Yarn: Austermann Step color 06
Needles: Inox 5 dpn size 2.25 mm
Size: Women's 7 wide
These are a present for someone, so they will be given away soon.

Since I finished this pair of socks I started a new pair from the Red Cross Knit Kit. The yarn is an olive drab wool, but it feels like it has some cotton in it. I am also doing the top down construction again since I like how that fits better. (the camera battery needed to be recharged so no picture)

I also did some spinning the other night to add to this:
I started a scarf with my handspun and discovered it would be very short, so I have to spin some more. Unfortunately I am getting better at the spinning and the yarn might not be the same gauge as the first set.

I have also spent some time working on my Rosebud shawl, but it didn't photograph well. It looks like a wad of pink thread. I have 4 of the 11 repeats done on the middle section. It is much harder to knit with the thin yarn on biggish needles than the socks, so I work on this in the evenings.

Not much going on

Like the title says, not much is going on in the knitting/spinning part of my world. I will be busy this weekend with my son's 6th birthday party. We will be going bowling with a total of 8 kindergarten boys. Should be fun, but you never know. I finished a pair of socks last weekend and have started a new pair. The new ones are top down instead of toe up. I really like the fit of the top-down style better, but you can't just knit until you run out of yarn. Since this pair is a present for someone else, I thought I would do the top-down style.