20 years after having gotten Mr. BooBoo kittens for his birthday, we got a kitty again. He's playful and skittish, purry and smelly, and we are happy to have a cat in the house again (it's been about a year and a half since we lost our Annabel). He's adjusting pretty well; there has been only one bad "pee incident" (in a bed- yuck).
I've been on a good knitting roll. I have been chugging away at the Tangled Yoke Cardigan and have done the body up to the armpit and one sleeve. My row gauge is a little funky, so I may have to figure out how much I should really knit of the yoke before beginning the cable or I may just hope for the best and follow the pattern as written.
The Black is Back sweater is stalled. I knit it too long and snipped off some length at the bottom of the back and the front, but was a bit too careless, so it will take some work to repair and it is far too dark in the house in the evening for me to see what I'm doing on it. Oh well, someday I'll get back to it. Since I failed to finish that quick knit (ha ha) for Mr. BooBoo's birthday, I hauled out the Striped Raglan sweater that I began for him last spring and finished that up only one day late. (It will look a little tidier once washed, but he seems to like it, and, maybe I'm wrong here, but I don't actually think it looks too goofy!)
I'm still working on the soft kid mittens from last month. They have been my P.T. project and I have met some other knitters there as a result, so that is kind of nice. 2 pairs are done except for thumbs :) and the ribbing is done for one of the 3rd pair.
Sock knitting has stalled a bit. I have 2 pairs on the needles, both for the bag o' socks:
1."Dead Calm" socks with Ellen's halfpint farm merino sock yarn in a lovely variegated deep blue and a twisted cable running down the sides and 2. plain DK weight stockinette socks out of Mirasol Hacho in a funky gold, brown, and green colorway.
I was so pleased to find the Mirasol yarns at my LYS when I escaped the house (and in-laws)
last weekend. They all looked really nice to me-- and the ones with alpaca were soooo soft.
I also picked up some Claudia Handpainted silk lace to make a stole or shawl for one of my friends. It is gorgeous and I hope not too busy for lace. I'm thinking of making the melon shawl from Victorian Lace Today, but I want to finish up some of these other WIPs so that I can concentrate on the shawl once I begin (if I don't just chug straight through on projects that require some attentiveness, they likely get too messed up to continue and I don't want that to happen this time.)
