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Working 9-5 + Christmas knitting to be done = no time to blog.

Will be back once insanity has let up a bit.

I just got my first Sip’n’Stitch package. It’s awesome. Love the yarn (Luxe base: 75/25 sw merino/tussah silk)! The color will most likely grow on me. I’m not usually a fan of browns, but the gold in this is just so pretty. And that’s also a part of the fun of being in a club: getting something that I wouldn’t usually pick for myself.

The coffee is from Joe Van Gogh and it says on the label that it’s “an organic blend from Guatemala with hints of cocoa to warm you up this holiday season.” I can smell it through the bag and it’s just so enticing. But before I can try it out, I need to wash my French press and coffee grinder.

On Saturday I went over to Lucy’s to help her sort out her yarn. I had a blast just fondling the yarn and sorting everything into piles. As a thank you, she gave me a skein of her hand dyed alpaca which I’ve named Lucy.

And just so this isn’t all about yarn, I cooked! I love soupe Vichyssoise. Doesn’t it look yummy?

And a day later, I made potage Crecy. No pic of that though. It was gone too quickly. :P

Hear that? That is the sound of my life going back to normal. The drama llama is gone.

Long story short, she sent me text saying she’s never speaking to me again. Fine by me. That gave me the push to finally remove her from my Facebook friends, and from Twitter and to block her on MSN.

I’m freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Also? The fever’s gone. Cough’s still there and it feels like I’m hacking out my lungs bit by bit. But I’m getting better. ^_^

Not much new on the knitting front.

Mostly working on secret projects, so can’t talk about those. Cast on the Lorelei cardigan from Twist Collective (Fall 2009) this morning. Have done four rows on it, but then the secret projects needed my attention again.

I’ve decided to frog my Fifi 2 scarf (link is to my Rav page). Basically, it’s too long, too narrow, keeps curling inwards and kinda feels like a rope around my neck the few times that I’ve worn it. So to the frog pond it is. I’ll probably reuse the yarn to make another thick scarf, possibly matching mitts or something to go with it since I most likely won’t use all of the yarn for the scarf.

So what’ve I done today?

- A load of laundry washed & dried - The dishes - Cleaned the bathroom - Tidied the bedroom - Sorted summer clothes into a storage bin and took out winter clothes - Cleaned the kitchen - Tidied the living room (did most of that yesterday, but had a few things left over to put away)

And listened to CraftLit while doing all of that. I was done before noon. ^_^

In the afternoon? Knit. Knitknitknit. And fondled my new yarn:

Right now, I’ve got a part of dinner in the oven. Can’t wait to see how it turns out. :D

This is 98g/212 yds of squishy goodness. ^_^

Mara - Sep 1, 2009

I love Woolhunter yarns, and am working with a couple at the moment. Her colours are exquisite. Yay for getting red tomatoes, finally…!

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So the Sheffield Wool and Textiles Craft Fair was this weekend. I went on both days and this is what I came back with.

That’s a hank of alpaca (90/10 alpaca/nylon), a hank of Gothic Yarns in Lost Innocence, 100g of Shetland in Humbug and a niddy noddy. Never had a niddy noddy before. Can’t wait to use it! Which is probably why I’ve been on such a spinning kick. Finished off the second singles of the September club shipment from WildCraft today. Will ply it tomorrow.

In gardening news, lookie! I have red tomatoes!

I just keep picking off about two of the reddest a day and eating them right then and there. So yummy.

I’m sick. Feel like crap. So instead of a “proper” blog post, you guys get pics.

Here are the socks I just finished today. They’re the Marlene pattern by Cookie A, found in the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Knit.1.

And here’s the Clapotis I knit for myself. It’s to replace the one I lost. This is what I worked on while I was in Finland for a week.