Red scarf progress

Almost 1 skein thru my 3-skein red scarf. Am getting fed up with the pattern now - don't have a whole lot of patience when it comes to the middle boring part of a long and skinny scarf. In fact, this may end up being a 2-skein scarf...

Here's the patterned bit at the bottom - maybe I should have continued this all the way up? It curls a lot, which will come out with blocking, but makes for unimpressive-looking progress.

Also finished another pair of my 48-stitch-around fingerless gloves , in about 3 days of commuting. Love these. Now I know what to do with all that left over sock yarn, yay!

Sounds like my kind of outing...

Look what I found posted in a couple of places: an official yarn crawl of eight lys on the Eastern Shore - with discounts and everything! Just last week I was over on there and visited two of the great stores mentioned. Surely by September I'll have all that yarn wound, knitted, blocked and happily gifted, and will be ready to buy some more...
Who's with me?

So good to myself...

Finished the Olympic scarf a few days early at Wednesday's Sip n Knit: blocking now. I folded it over to block (didn't have enough spare space that I could guarantee would remain unvisited by dogs). I really like it, and the pattern is easy to memorize and it looks so good :)
(Note: helper at top left)

So what next? Well, I discovered a partially made sock in the knitting bag: even though the colorway is a little '1970's living room' I decided it was too pretty for a sock:

Love these! Great way to show off sock yarn, esp when all bundled up in dark winter colours (I'm ready!).


Haven't I been good at using my stash yarn? Of course, this leaves quite a void...

On Friday took the day off and we went across the Bay and visited a couple of little towns. So pretty and peaceful over there. And guess what - found two yarn stores!

One was a teeny tiny place, Fibre Cafe run by Bonnie and Fiberetta, where I picked up 3 skeins of bright red cotton (on sale) for the Red Scarf yarn project. And, Bonnie gave me a couple of her own knitting mags she was done with, including the Winter 2007 Interweave Knits (yay!) It is a very small store, so restraint wasn't too difficult.

But then...in the next town ran across Frivolous Fibers...where I couldn't resist these:
which I am planning to use for what will be a vay vibrant (and soft) scarf;

this:

which will make a gorgeous shawl (assuming I ever get it wind it up...)
and this:

which is already half knit - more later.


So the stash is well and truly plumped up again. And all is well...

Darn Ravelry

So yesterday, while on a conference call at work, I decided to skim through Ravelry to pick a scarf pattern for the upcoming red scarf drive. Still thinking. Then, ignoring the notion of the large stash in an ever-expanding corner of my closet, I clicked on several of the yarn stores advertised to find a red yarn bargain. Ah Ravelry, what did I ever do without you...

Not 2 minutes later a big ugly message pops up - Warning - Virus Detected

And that was that. All access to The Internets, gone. E-mail, gone. Went to talk to the IT guy, and 5 minutes later: computer, gone... :(

So see? Ravelry can in fact be bad for the health...knew it ;)

Fun weekend

Ah summer weekends. This last was a fun one. Spent Saturday morning/afternoon knitting/chatting/shopping/eating - doesn't get a whole lot better than that. Visited an LYS I hadn't been to before and bought the supplies for this lovely thing, thanks to Lyn for helping me find just what I needed - a bright red cotton blend yarn. I'm not sure whether I'll make this for my(ever-expanding)self, or for Mum (birthday in 2 months). Hmm...

Am on the last skein of yarn for the lace ribbon scarf - of course, I am thinking that the "lace ribbon" in the name suggests I should have used something finer, but the colours are pretty. And heck I'm 6 skeins into it - some people might have the patience and sensibility to rip and do over but that's something I could never face :)

On Saturday night myself and Himself went to a restaurant in Baltimore to celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary. I bought him a wedding ring to replace the one he lost last year doing yard work, and he bought me a pretty new ring just because. Aww.
I think I'll keep him.