Ok, FINALLY I have figured out the proper way to do the YOs on the Voyager Lace Stole (aka the "She's Partial to the Periwinkle Blue" Stole). Now I'm making progress. Yay! I got to indulge in one of my favourite nice-weather pastimes this weekend: knitting outside in the sunshine! There's just something about the warm sun, the light breeze, and a lapful of knitting that makes me bliss out. :)

The Who Knits group on Ravelry is doing a charity afghan, and while I'd like to contribute a square, they're doing sock yarn squares, and I don't really have time with everything else I'm doing right now. If it were worsted, I'd go for it, but I'm sick of itty-bitty sock yarn. Pity--one idea they have is to do two identical afghans: one for auction for a charity (Doctors Without Borders, natch!) and one to send to David Tennant. I like that idea, even if I'm not as fangirly about him as I am about the last Doctor.

OK, work time now. Meh. So tired today...

Back in the saddle again

Hey, suddenly I'm really ENJOYING knitting again! It's amazing what going from socks on size 1 metal DPNs to worsted cotton on bamboo size 9s can do for me!

Yesterday, in a bar in Cambridge, I cast on for the Voyager Lace Stole from Elann.com. I'm using Blue Sky Alpaca dyed cotton in Periwinkle. I hope to complete it in time to send it to my boyfriend's mom for Christmas, and that shouldn't be a problem. On Ravelry, I'm calling it the "She's Partial to the Periwinkle Blue" Stole. After all, it's for his ma. Anyone who's seen Snatch should get it. :) If you haven't, see it! Very funny.

An amusing note: I was watching Doctor Who reruns (Series 3) the other day, and in the episode "Gridlock", where flying cars are locked in perpetual traffic jams, there are these two ladies on the motorway--the Cassini "sisters" (they're actually married)--and one of them is driving while the other sits in the back and knits. I thought, "If I were stuck in a traffic jam for 23 years, that's EXACTLY what I'd be doing. It's the only thing that might keep me sane." :)

Webs

Are any of you folks out there planning on going to the Webs tent sale this weekend? Is it worthwhile to go?

A quick, pic-less update

So, I don't know how many of my readers have heard me whining about this, but I'm getting damned sick of socks. This pair is taking me forever because I keep stopping! Fortunately, I have turned the heel of Lacy Trellis Sock #2, and am working the decreases for the instep. Hooray! Progress! Maybe now I can feel justified in doing something else for a bit. I've bought a skein of the right color of Cascade 220 to finish my Brea Bag. I think I'm going to frog the gusset, even though it's mostly knit already, because it looks horribly shapeless. I'll start over. I have a gorgeous fabric for the lining for the bag: a black cotton with a print of autumn leaves all over it.

Before I get to that, though, I should finalize plans for the shawl for M's mother. I already have a lovely yarn for the Future Mother-In-Law Shawl (or FMILS): the blue and purple variegated boucle that I got at the MITSnB Yankee Swap. I'm thinking, however, that maybe a little more subdued shade might be better for her. I want something in the light blue color family, for sure, since it'll bring out J's eyes nicely. I really need to decide on a pattern, though. Print o' the Wave is lovely, but I'm not sure I have the patience for it right now. Maybe the Voyager Lace Stole from Elann? We'll see.

I also really, really, really, really need to combine my love of knitting with my extreme fascination with Doctor Who and make a Dalek. Or two. EXTERMINATE!