Every year, as a holiday present, my wonderful manager gives me a gift certificate to Windsor Button. Since my boyfriend is working this weekend, and I had no reason to rush home after work last night, I decided to spend it! I pored over the various fingering and laceweight yarns there, and settled on a skein of Handmaiden Sea Silk. Now, the $25 gift certificate didn't cover the price of the yarn, but it DID bring it down to $14, which is a damned cheap price to pay for a skein of such luscious, gorgeous stuff. The colorway is a mix of oranges and reddish purples that might sound incongruous, but it works beautifully, and the colors are VERY me. I'm thrilled to have it. I'm pretty sure I'll end up doing a Swallowtail shawl, since a lot of people have done one of those with a single skein of the Sea Silk, and they all look lovely.
Right now, though, I'm still slogging through the mesh portion of my Shipwreck. I'm about halfway through with that section, and I estimate it'll probably take me a couple of months to finish because it is SO DAMN SLOW. Those beads, oy. But man, they are beautiful. This shawl will be a work of art once it's done and blocked.
Speaking of blocking, about a week ago or so, I saw interlocking foam floor mats at Christmas Tree Shops at four 24-inch tiles to the pack for $10. I snatched up a couple packs today. Now I'll have a surface big enough to block my Shipwreck! Or, you know, a Doctor Who scarf. Or an afghan. Sheesh. Anyway, they don't take up much room when they're stacked up. This is the kind of thing that's really only interesting to knitters, isn't it?
Well, I've had enough of running errands and slogging through snow for one day. I think it's getting on time to treat myself to a manhattan and plop in front of the TV with some knitting. Later, people.
