I know.....

I was kinda MIA last week. It was just to rainy and depressing, and nothing really got done.
I was still missing the yarn for thistle, and I was just working on this little double knit scarf....

I like the colors, and I think I'm getting the whole double knit thing pretty well......

By the end of the week, the yarn for thistle arrived.....Just in time for a total DOWNPOUR of rain, like, 2 inches in one day. Good day to knit. I've only got about 3 more rows on the edge and then it's on to steeking.

 

I'll probably wait until it rains again to finish this. Most of my time now is taken up with gardening when the weater permits.

 

We did take time yesterday to go get our new tables from Bassett. Love the tables, not sure how we lived without them.....

 

As you can see, the knitting fits right in.

 

Coming up..... April 6th (or thereabouts), I'll be headed off for a bit of shopping at vogue knitting live in seattle, with some enabling company, of course.....you KNOW who you are!

I'm looking forward to what will be a well deserved break from moving dirt.

 

I HATE spring ahead

I think I've said this before, but it bears repeating. I HATE, HATE, HATE spring ahead. I feel like I've been hit by a truck. I always spend the first week or two wandering around like a zombie wondering if it's time for lunch! WHY can't we just leave well enough alone?????
Arizona does it, and they manage just fine, thankyouverymuch!

OK, rant over.......
This week I did make some progress on the thistle stole. (rain again), however, I am now dead in the water with it, having run out of yarn 10 rows from the end. ARGH!! The fine folks that originally made the kit were wonderful, though, and offered to send me enough to finish at no charge. I'll definitely be supporting dicentra designs again. Now I just have to wait for it to get here.

Since I'm feeling a colorwork mood coming on, I think I'll probably start on the queen bee sweater. I have all the yarn and the pattern, it just depends if it needs the same needles that are currently sticking out of the thistle project.......

If that doesn't work out, I'll just go play with glass. It's supposed to rain like a monsoon all week, so no playing outside in the dirt (mud), as much as I want to. We'll have to find inside projects......

The doggies have celebrated spring ahead by going back to bed. Maybe I'll join them.....

pent up spring fever

This week, I made some serious progress on the thistle stole. This is what happens when you have spring fever SO bad you can't sit still, and you're waiting for the dirt guy to finish and the rain to stop.
I'm more than 1/2 way there......

Can't say I did any hexipuffs this week, most of the work was on the thistle and the computer, shopping for plants!

My plan for next week is to continue with thistle, maybe make some puffs, and probably buy more plants. (you can never have too many plants - kinda like yarn)

I've decided that since I'm on a colorwork binge, the next project will be the queen bee sweater. I already have all the yarn and the pattern, just need to get it out. One thing at a time.......