Thursday, May 17, 2018

It's May! And Spring finally managed to get here.

Which means I got to knit outside!
The pattern is Beautiful Solitude  in MadTosh Light in Bittersweet.  It's been finished, took me three days to bind it off, and it looks amazing even though it still needs to be blocked.

Quite a lot of the afternoons look like this:
Which means I should have time to knit these:
Two of my favorite characters done in yarn!  Endora and Hulk
And these, Dark Matter and a hand-painted sock blank:
Yes, I have a crush on Potion Yarns right now.   Her colors are gorgeous and Johanna is charming!

There has also been pie:

And I may have bought more wine:
I feel that it is starting to become rather like my yarn collection, though unlikely to ever take up as much room.  It takes far less time to drink a bottle of wine than knit a skein or two of yarn.

The warmer weather has been most welcome, but apparently not as welcome as the stinky shoes that accompany it:


Started a new blog

  Oooh Shiny! is now on WordPress.  There isn't much there yet, but I will work on that.