Last night Rob came into the kitchen via the dining room and proclaimed that the dining room smells really good. I found that interesting, because there aren't any scented candles, bowls of potpourri, incense sticks or anything of that nature in the room. I walked in, sniffed, and detected nothing. You know, in the same way that you can't smell your own home unless you've been gone for a few days. I asked him what it smelled like and he said, "Well, it kind of smells like Hilltop. I guess it's all the yarn in there." :-) It's official: we live in a wool house.
It has sort of been stacking up on the sideboard....Note that this is not, officially, "the stash". It lives upstairs.
In web-related news, I have started a flickr account. This was in order to be able to post pictures in my Ravelry account. For all of our England photos, as well as knitting projects 2008, you can look up Seattle Yogini in Ravelry or Flickr and find me. Please click over and take a look, maybe that will make the neither-happy-nor-sad emoticon smile.
I won't tease you, though. Here's the latest round-up:
"Go With the Flow Socks", pattern by Evelyn A. Clark, from Favorite Socks. Sock one took me about two weeks of travel knitting time, and sock two is about two or three inches underway. Yarn is Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Merino.
These are "Ruffle and Rib" from the Knitting Daily "Better Than Baby Booties" free download. Yarn is Lorna's Laces Superwash Merino. The pattern says I should get three pairs of booties out of one skein. Yay! This pair almost matches...
Last but not least, is effort number two at a Husband Sweater. The first one was dismissed after numerous, increasingly painful, sleeve attempts. This time, I'm using an actual pattern. It is "The Fog Sweater" from tiennie knits. I'm using the suggested Ecological Wool, already a favorite from the Hemlock Ring Blanket.
As you can see, I'm only an inch or so past the armpits, but plugging along with it. I want to get the body done before it gets too hot to work on it, at which point I can happily switch to sleeves. That is, unless the sleeves are picked up from the body....hmmmmm.....should probably read the whole pattern........
Anyway, that's what I've been up to in knitting lately. I'm planning a summer cardigan using Rowan Calmer (my first time!). Just starting a swatch now, though, so won't have anything to show for a bit. I'm contemplating joining Sockapalooza again this year (which looks like it'll run for a fifth year!). It was more fun than I thought, and particularly enjoyable to receive a pair of handknit socks from halfway around the world! I was thinking yesterday, though, how disappointing it must be for those whose sock partner didn't finish by the send-off date. I'm sure we all understand that things come up, but still....it would be disappointing, don't you think?
One final bit of fun:
This is my avatar. I know that there's one reader (Hi Sam! Miss you!) who actually knows what this is from. Anybody else?
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