I hope everyone’s having a good weekend, I know mine has been busy! I worked like crazy yesterday, cleaning the house, mowing the lawn and dyeing some yarn. It wasn’t all work though, I got to relax a bit, read a book (what a concept!) and go out to my favorite microbrewery with my roommate for dinner. Nothing like sitting outside on a beautiful evening, drinking some tasty Oatmeal Stout and people watching. I’m looking forward to my lack of plans today, and hoping to get in some knitting on a few projects.
I’m still working away on the first Gentleman’s Lozenge Sock, and am almost to the heel flap. The yarn is still wonderful, and I continue to enjoy knitting every stitch with it. Funny story about that too…see in the last post I said the yarn smelled really good, and Anne replied to say that she had washed it with patchouli wool wash. My Mom commented later that evening how nice the yarn smelled, and I said, “well I don’t think it’s a very good patchouli scent, because shouldn’t it smell more like pot if it’s patchouli?” I make comments like this fairly often, and my family always gets quite a hoot out of it. Well I guess patchouli isn’t pot…but for some reason I associated it as such. Probably because I knew hippies used patchouli, and I must have equated it with pot. Little did I know that they used patchouli to cover up the smell of the other substance! Anyway, that was my dork moment of the week. I hope you get a little amusement out of it like my parents did ;)
I also have some delicious new yarn, that arrived on my doorstep on Friday afternoon. It’s some handspun BFL from Georgia of Yarn Pirate, in her Buccaneer colorway. Isn’t it gorgeous!? It’s so soft, and has the trademark squishy-ness of handspun yarn. And the colors are definitely “manly”, so thanks Georgia! It’s always wonderful to receive a generous gift from a fellow yarnie :)
She also included a tape measure from Church Mouse Yarns, a little yarn store on Bainbridge Island, which is located in the Puget Sound. I was on that same island a few years ago, but sadly wasn’t a knitter at the time, because I would have been all over that store. It’s also funny, because some of my friends have called me Church Mouse for years now (*I’m short and my last name is Church. Enough said.), so I think it’s quite apropos that I now have a Church Mouse Yarns tape measure.
I have the perfect pattern in mind for the handspun too, one which has been beautifully executed, both here and here. I’ve already swatched (and ripped that swatch out, since I think I’ll be down to the wire on this one), and am raring to go. This afternoon will be the perfect time to try and overcome my crochet dyslexia and cast on.
Have a great Sunday everyone!
Anyone else looking forward to quitting time after a long week?
