New Books and updates on WIP

So apparently Interweave Press has an annual hurt book sale. I found out about this yesterday when I got a nice little e-mail from Knitting Daily. As someone who has always drooled over Interweave Press' knitting books, I was salivating over the prices and books that they had up for sale. Unfortunately, funds are a little tight now so, regardless of the fabulous prices, I knew that buying these books would hurt me financially so I had to sadly turn away from the sale.

Then something amazing happened. Tanner and I were driving back from the grocery store when I mentioned the situation from him. He looked up from the book he was reading and said:

"Why don't I just buy you the ones you want for your birthday?"

I froze. I hadn't really thought about that. I had already asked Tanner for something and assumed that he had either already bought it or had something else in mind. I told him yes of course and now I'm going to get three lovely books at the end of July. The first thing I grabbed as was Getting Started Knitting by Jennifer Worick. As you can tell, it's a basic knitting book. I found out about it when it was reviewed on the faireknits podcast. Sure I know a lot of the basics already but I'm still a beginner, so this should help me out with the things I don't know. I also took advantage of their Style Special, by picking up Scarf Style by Pam Allen and Wrap Style by Pam Allen and Anne Budd for only 15 bucks total. I have a feeling that Scarf Style will be more to my liking but I've always wanted to learn how to knit shawls as well. The patterns in here look to be more complex so I know that I'm not going to be able to tackle these until I have sharpened my skills with Getting Started Knitting.

Oh, and I found out that there's an ongoing Scarf Style/Wrap Style kal going on on blogspot. Maybe when I get brave enough to try out the patterns I'll join :).

As far as knitting goes, I'm almost at the end of the second skein of yarn for the Sleepytime Seashells blanket. I'm really pleased with how it's turning out (despite a mistake here and there) and I suspect that it will be done once I get another half skein or yarn in there. I also started a hat for WarmUpWinc. It's about halfway done now. I'm sure once I sit down and work on it, it will be finished in no time.