Lotsa Color and 2 x 2 Rocks My World

Which do you want first: knitting or yarn p*rn.  Yeah, I thought so. 

Two skeins from Brooklyn Handspun yarns in Forest Floor (r) and the ever-popular Chocolate Covered Cherries(l).  Aren’t the colors great?  One is a gifty, but the other will join my ever-expanding sock yarn stash.

Some Mama-E goodness.  From left, PoMo (SO pretty, but hey, I might be a little biased), Mermaids (preppy spring goodness), and the skein I won in Mama’s contest, Lollygirl, named after the lovely founder of Project Spectrum.  I just checked, and there are six spaces left in the Mama-E Project Spectrum Club.  Did you get a load of May’s yarn?

I was a little sad yesterday as I was supposed to be taking a mini-vacation today, but had to cancel due to too much schoolwork.  Getting pretty yarn in the mail helped to cheer me up.  And I’ve worked hard all day and made good progress on said schoolwork.  So even though it stinks, I’m glad I stayed home.

Now for a little knitting content.  I hosted Crafty Friday earlier in the weekend.  Yeah, it was on Friday.  You get the picture.  And lucky for me, Laurie was there to help me get my two socks on two circulars going.  She’d helped me to cast on at SnB on Tuesday, but I was pretty tangled up until Friday. I can’t tell you how proud I am to be knitting 2×2!  These are my Sockapaloooza socks, for which I’ve changed yarn and patterns way more times than I ought to have.  I’m settled now on something I think will look nice and that I can finish in the next few weeks.  To sweeten the deal, I’m going to send the yarn I had thought of using to my Sockee.  She knits beautiful socks, and I’m excited to see what she makes from the Chlorphyll yarn I bought from Celia.

In other Crafty Friday news, Chad came and worked on his quilt (when he wasn’t playing Napoleon Dynamite), Dana worked on her cross stitch baby blanket, Jennifer (who learned to knit at the first Crafty Friday) is cooking on her scarf.  Her stitches are perfect!  Liz is making the gauntlets from Alterknits–beautiful in a pale pink Manos, and her charming husband Trevor taught himself stranded knitting (I think I have the right name for it) and had lots of thoughts about felting and how to play with colors.  Lauren finished up handmitts (which fit me PERFECTLY, but I gave them back), Cari cooked on her cotton Hourglass Sweater from LMKG.  Carmela worked on a new scarf on HUGE needles, and I’m not sure what Jeannie worked on…she seemed to spend a lot of time helping the rest of us out!  Noelle, ever the generous sweetie, had a wonderful orange roving that she spun, and that she let everyone who wanted to do so, spin.  Then, as she left, she handed me the bobbin and gifted the yarn to me.  I forgot to take a picture, but it goes well with the yarn that I purchased for the Loop-d-loop paisley bag. 

Yesterday I returned a boatload a cone of pink mohair to Village Wools.  I bought it with a project in mind, but that project wants a different (black) yarn. Yes, I want to make that wrap, and as Cari noted, I will get kicked out of the East Coast if I wear anything other than black. While there, I saw Scout and her dyeing board.  Go look at her blog to see the cool stuff she’s doing.  She’s not selling it, so don’t get your hopes up (but try to change her mind, ok?).  I was tickled when she introduced me as "PoMo" to one of her friends.  Don’t you just love having another identity, bloggers?

Time to get back to the grindstone, the grindstone that has prevented me from being in a tub with friends, under the stars, content with a mini vacation.  I’m not bitter, I promise!