Knits

I’m off on business for a few days. I hope that all the travelling and meetings don’t make me so tired and cross-eyed that I can’t knit otherwise I will be very bored.

We’ve been having absolutely crazy weather. We had thunderstorms off and on today, but they literally lasted under five minutes and then the sun would shine and dry things out. Luckily I made it to and from work without getting wet today; yesterday I wasn’t as lucky as I had to change into my spare jeans while the trousers I wore to work dried out.

I’ve begun my second Saucy sock and have done one pattern repeat. I need to look at the one I’ve already knit to see how many repeats I did, etc. so I can continue to work on it while I’m away. I’m going to take some other knitting — more socks. I haven’t decided which yarn or pattern yet. I thought about giving the Knit Picks¹ Memories a go, but I don’t have time to play with it and I don’t really have room to take a variety of needles, etc. I might take another colourway of Piece of Beauty — Dark Matter — but again, what pattern?! I better get browsing my collection.

Other knitting related things:

• Girl from Auntie is clearing out a bunch of her stash. Lots of nice things going.
• Having recently added a bunch of new-to-me blogs to my blog reader, I am happy to see a new e-publication being put together to highlight blogs in the knitting / fiber world that may not be widely known. For information about this e-pub — Yarnival — see the entry at Needle Exchange.
• Vaguely knitting related since it has to do with this blog — I’ve changed the theme and have been fixing my categories. There might be a few hiccups if you’re actually visiting my blog vs reading through a reader as I play with the code running some of the navigation.

And some miscellaneous things:

• I’ve begun renting the Arrested Development DVDs. I knew the show was funny since I’d seen a bit of it back in the US, but man, I’m glad I decided to rent these. So funny. Too bad so many people would rather watch the same boring reality shows over and over rather than something clever and witty.
• As I’m leaving for a few days, I had to eat some things that would’ve surely gone off before I got around to using them on Saturday (won’t be home until lateish on Friday). That meant a giant pile of asparagus and raspberries (not all at once). Below is a raspberry meringue. It was so good I might have another one…

Happy 4th of July to those readers in the US and any ex-pats that might read this. Eat a hot dog for me!

1 Knit Picks has a clearance on some of the colours of Memories. They also have a new self-striping sock yarn called Felici.

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