No pictures, just babble
Who knew having a puppy was so much work? (Well, I knew, but didn't know.) Sophie is remarkably well behaved, aside from her tendency to gnaw on everything (including yarn - at least she has good taste) and the difficulty we have housebreaking her (we never catch her in the act so we're finding it difficult to make the distinction between in-house and outside-house pottying). She's really quite sweet and laid back. A basset's an excellent choice for us, I think. I even love her hound-dog smell.
I haven't had much time for knitting. I get a few rows in here and there - my sister's sweater is on its last piece, and that's been my bus knitting. I can knit one repeat in a bus ride. My fair isle jazz scarf is almost done with its "jazz," (update: I forgot I was posting, and I went back to knitting, and now it's done) though I gotta kick myself for making so many silly mistakes with it (like starting out with 11 stitches in one section, then going to 14, then to 13... what the hell?). But it looks okay, so I'm not ripping back. We'll call it improvisation.
Another gift was started: socks for my mom-in-law, using KnitPicks Sock Garden in Morning Glory. It's really soft, yummy yarn, but all of the colorways I've seen are extremely gaudy. This one is no exception. Luckily, my mom-in-law is a little gaudy.
Yesterday I splurged a little. I bought an Addi Turbo needle so I could do two socks on two circulars, along with four balls of Naturespun Sport for the argyle slippers in Weekend Knitting for me and my man (I have other colors to supplement those - he will have a blue/grey/black/white colorway, and I will have a pink/grey/white/black colorway). But the splurge was this: a hank of handpainted superwash merino sportweight yarn in "Plumlicious" by Claudia Handpainted. Oh, so soft, and I couldn't resist. But, heck, I just stopped myself from ordering a ton of Lorna's Laces from Little Knits (it's on sale, by the way).
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I just started one of those argyle slippers. Man, is intarsia messy.
Fin.
Tipper @ 4:32 PM * link
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