Still here, really!

I'm sorry to say that I went through a long period of not knitting at all recently. I had to rip my shawl (Gail, aka Nightsongs) back to a lifeline, and didn't want to do it. It wasn't so much the idea of the ripping back that bugged me, as I'd only done one and a half chart repeats, but the idea of picking those tiny stitches back up again from the dental floss. I finally did it, though, and am now feeling a lot more comfortable with the pattern. I've done almost three repeats of the chart now, and seem to be in "flying along" territory. I also went out and actually bought myself a skein of sock yarn--a very colorful mix by Kaffe Fasset. I decided that hexipuffs are the perfect vacation project for when I go away at the end of the summer, because I can work on them while talking to people and can easily pick them up and put them down without losing my place. I know I'm going to have to buy yarn just for this project, because I am tending to do more laceweight lace knitting than sockweight lately, and I am not going to have endless sock yarn odds and ends in the foreseeable future. I hope to post some pics of my WIPs soon--the shawl and some of my finished hexipuffs. That might make up for my being away so long!