I feel a little disconnected this week. It’s been busy and I haven’t had any concentrated time to sit down and write a post or look at Facebook or anything! Facebook is terrifying because I know the news feed continues whether I look at it or not and I’ll never have the time to scroll down hundreds of posts to see what happened. Then I remember that somehow everyone’s life carries on whether I know about it or not!
I finished Itineris last week. It’s a wonderful wrappy shawl in two colors, very much fun to make. I used Mirasol’s Nuna in a beautiful oyster shade plus black. Very graphic – I love it. (Bottom picture is from Ravelry.)
I spent a couple hours at Design Revolution on Monday, looking at changes to the website and wondering how long it will take me to know what I’m doing when it changes over. Should happen in a couple weeks, I think. Besides a sleeker look to most pages, you’ll be able to sign up and pay for classes online using Paypal and eventually we may get around to selling a few other things online as well. Speaking of classes, we’re working on the fall schedule and I hope we’ll have that figured out by mid-August.
Seacoast update: This is where I was on Sunday:
and today: Done! I’m going to weave in the ends today and block tomorrow and I’ll have pictures to show you soon! Still love the color, and it was so easy and pleasant to knit in Moonshine!
Spent a couple hours with Josie Baxter yesterday buying some bee-you-tiful yarn and toys for fall. More yarn bowls coming plus a few lovely thing from Wool Tree: wood products that hold your yarn while you knit, and they are nice to look at, too. You can use them for cones or regular balls of yarn:
And these little mug-plus-tool-organizers are a sweet idea.
Aren’t they neat?
I bought yarn, of course, some lovely things! From Zealana, I couldn’t resist a couple more colors of their ridiculously expensive and incredibly luxurious Air Chunky. Purl couldn’t resist it either and chewed the skein I brought home last year into little bitty pieces. I’ll be more careful this time! Island Yarns’s Chesterfield is a merino/silk singles in aran-to-light-chunky weight, 250 yd and so plush for a one-skein cowl. The Alpaca Yarn Company dyed these pretty jewel tones; now imagine them in a 400 yd. skein of soft alpaca and Tencel in fingering weight – yum!)
Frog Tree is doing some beautiful tonal colors in Pediboo, and Blue Ridge Yarns had the cute idea to package their hand-dyed superwash merino in two equal skeins for socks. So much fun in store for us! Now all we need is the time, right?
