Here goes. I have been reading (listening to as I knit) Labyrinth, which was, up until now, kind of slow, but good. Well finally, finally after 11 hours of jumping all over the place and too many characters here & there it is all coming to a head, but I had to stop listening/knitting to make dinner. Hmf. Eating is necessary but sometimes irritating.
We watched The Prestige, which- if you don't mind watching people doing really bad things to each other was probably actually a good movie - for me it was torture. It put me in a horrible, horrible mood friday night. Stupid movie with stupid mean people in it. Also, Sunday we watched the Prairie Home Companion, which was...odd and a bit boring. I don't know what we were expecting, but that wasn't it.
My dad got his father's day socks, not even a whole week late & here they are - I think they came out v nice. STR in some color I can't remember but is had to do with weather - stormy something or other?
**they are in fact called Stormy Weather - thank you Zonda!
I did send out my last SP package but I don't think she' s gotten it yet.
Also exciting for me, not so much for you - I organized. I organized the laundry room, the bedroom closet (donations for Goodwill galore!), the bathroom cabinets, the bookcase in the den with all my crafty books on it - I even got magazine holders at Staples & put the IK, Vogue, & Quilting magazines in them. I organized my knitting/quilting books by topic. I got caught up with the stack of magazines in the living room and I sorted & filed the clutter on the dresser/jewerly box/bookshelves in the bedroom. I am feeling GOOD about all that.
There was much knitting. I started Tomato & had to run & get some contrasting yarn for the pattern, I am using cascade sierra in Jade, but the constrast is cascade pima tencel - the gauge is the same & I think it looks fine. They didn't have any colors in the sierra that would have worked well. No cream, no grey, no neutrals of any kind. Go figure. And I sure as heck wasn't waiting a whole week for some to come...I want to have this baby done by next weekend!
This is my biggest piece of color work to date & while I definitely had a few 'off pattern' places I had to frog back to, overall I am pleased. Here is the inside, I think I was so paranoid about it being too tight that it ended up being a bit loose in places, but not so much as to look bad.
Woohoo - have I been a busy lady this weekend!! And now I'm going to go back & knit some more...must...finish...tomato...