Some Days Off
Thanks for all the support. I'm reassured to know that it isn't just me. I have to say that the funniest* thing about my last post is that the first commenter was my sister, who had called me earlier that day, and had left a voice mail that I hadn't listened to yet when she commented. Clearly, in the event of an emergency, text me or email me... or comment on my blog.
*and by "funniest", I mean "saddest reflection on a set of priorities being totally out of wack"
I just got home last night after a few days in Seattle, the first actual get-on-a-plane-and-get-away vacation I've taken since ...um... 2004. Yay! What took me so long? We stumbled around without much of a plan, walked a zillion miles, played pinball, saw a ton of art, went snowboarding in real snow, and took a ferry to Bainbridge Island where I found this:
No, there wasn't a pile of Mountain Colors by the side of the road. There was Churchmouse Yarns & Teas, a fabulous yarn store. I think there may have also been tea there, but I was too busy buying yarn. This is almost as rare as me taking a vacation! I don't know when I've seen so much really fabulous yarn all in one place (perhaps Rhinebeck?) and with really nice, helpful staff as well. I was more than a little challenging to work with, and they were awesome. I asked if they knew the Noro sweater with the cables that might have been Cash Iroha that was off white in the book but that I wanted to knit in some other yarn, maybe handpainted, but mostly solid looking, and not too bright, but not too boring. And, about 15 minutes later, there I was with Mountain Colors Twizzle, in the Rosehip color, after consulting with the actual Noro pattern I was referring to, and some major math to sort out how the conversion would work out. I want to eat this yarn, it is so freakin' beautiful.
So, I'm back, taking one last day off to do stuff at home. Here's a WIP that doesn't photograph at all, made blogworthy because my cat insisted on being photographed with it. In December, I left a yarn swap with a big pile of Brushed Alpaca. Since the heat here is a bit shifty, I'm just knitting a big rectangle. When I get through half of it, I'm going to cast off, and then knit another big rectangle. With some sort of seaming, there should be an afghan. There is an actual zig zag pattern of knits and purls, but it is almost invisible in real life. In photo form, it looks like I'm knitting a pre-felted blob.
There's been a bit more frogging, and some sweater knitting (and when do I ever do that??) that I need to get on the blog. Soon.
