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.

Just posting to show that I’m still alive. Will blog about my trip to Finland later. For now, I’ll just leave you with a pic of my gorgeous new shoes.

My mystery shawl is done! All of the yarny/knitterly details can be found on my Ravelry page.

I bound it off last night and was kinda worried that it looked a bit small. But once I made it wet and spread it out on the bed? Boy did it grow. :D

The amount of daylight in the attic bedroom isn’t the best, so forgive the not so awesome pictures. I’ll take more outside (with me wearing it) when it’s dry. I ran out of pins while blocking this (had about 1/6 to go), so I had to do some emergency strategic redistribution. Now I’m just waiting for it to dry so I can wear it!

Here’s the whole shawl:

This is clues 1, 2 and 3:

Clue 4:

And the fifth and final clue:

Last night at the pub, I got these as a birthday gift from my friend Jane.

And I just spent over 800 words of my 5000 limit explaining why I titled my dissertation’s set of stories the way I did. I guess I feel very passionately about that.