Working away...

I finished knitting the clapotis and am spending time, now, making the dropped stitches drop. Silk Garden has a multitude of tiny fibers that cling to one another and the dropped stitches don't wanna go.

I finished Travis' satchel and re-knit and re-felted a new strap because the first one stretched so much the bag was just about skimming the ground.

My "to dye for" sweater is drying on the sweater rack, and will hopefully be dry for tonight's Easter Vigil.

And the knitting for the Weekend Getaway Satchel is almost done. Then comes the embroidery and then the felting--and will hopefully be done (felted and dried) by the 25th of April, when Travis and I go back east.

So, I'll post pictures of everything by the 25th--I hope. (Lots of hopin' goin' on....)

Lost in Kansas, again...

I'm having that halfway-across-the-USA feeling again, can't turn back now, gotta keep going, lil doggies, with my clapotis. Twelve repeats in the straight row section and it just seems as if it takes forever. But I do love the Silk Garden colorway (#205) and picked up another skein at a yarn store I happened by for the first time yesterday. I'd ordered 6 skeins, which is what the knitty.com pattern calls for, but I felt I had better have an extra, just in case.

I found it at Alamitos Bay Yarn Co. in Long Beach, on the bay. What a sweet store, with exquisite inventory including very cool buttons and little dingleberry thingies that go on knit hats and such. I was on my way to speak to the AAUW Long Beach literary luncheon so I only had 15 minutes. Picked up some Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock Yarn (two skeins in a red/yellow colorway that reminds me of my tied dyed days). Here it is. It's luscious. Now I know what all the hubbub is about Lorna's. So soft.

I hung up the skeins around candleabras. I want to look at it and touch it, whenever I want.