Celebrations..sort of.

So, I handed over the scarf to the birthday girl, and there were grins all around. It's taller than her, but who am I to argue with the taste of a 17 year old. I'm obviously not "cool" anymore.

To celebrate, I bought some yarn.
It wasn't intentional, but I logged into ebay for a quick look, and 15 minutes later I was the proud owner of some fab Lornas Laces.



Isn't it pretty? It's in their River colourway, and I can't wait to get my hands on it. I may have to temporarily hide it in my drawer at work. My darling other half doesn't quite know how big my stash has gotten of late, and I'd rather not have 2 large boxes filled entirely with yarn when we move at the end of the month. Maybe I should get one of those storage baggies that you hook up to the hoover and it squishes duvets down to the size of a stamp. I could use the "see? it's mostly just air" line then.

Think it would work?

I'm gonna wash that scarf right out of my hair...

Well I managed to get the scarf of doom finished last night. Ends all woven in, blocked, the lot. I even succeeded in wrapping it in pink paper and attaching a card.
Go me.
This evening I'll get a few pics of the birthday girl striking a pose with said scarf, and then I can finally wash my hands of it. Of course, now that I'm about to hand it over, today is going to be the warmest day so far this year...19 degrees (or 66 for those who prefer farenheit).

Cardigan progress...well I've finished one of the front sections, I've rounded the corner, done some casting off and shaped the armhole. Next step is some mid-line casting on, and I'm back into straight lines for 120-or-thereabouts lines.
Number of lines done on cardigan last night: 0.

I suck.

Well, to be more truthful, I got a little distracted. In my hunt for yarn needles I'd tipped my basket contents on to the floor and found the balls of yarn for the big bad WIP. I took this as a sign and got started on yet another of the squares. Oh, and I also decided what to knit with that delicious Jaeger mohair that I snagged off ebay. Not entirely unproductive, then!

We hateses the blue fluffy, yes we does

Wow...it has been a hideous amount of time since my last post. Lots of things have happened, and, unfortunately, more bad than good.
Still, now is not the time to dwell on such things.

I finished the scarf for Michelle's birthday, which is good. Now if I could only bother sewing in the ends this evening, I can give it to her tomorrow. This would be a wonderful thing (tm) as it would mean that I can finally leave the horribleness of knitting it behind. She wanted a scarf, in a girly colour. She now has a powder blue, 6 foot long skinny scarf, and I have nightmares about ever again having to make something in that 100% polyester eyelash yarn.

This does remind me that I need to charge my camera batteries this evening, so that I can take a picture of her modelling the blue monstrosity. Then, when I'm about to eat my needles in frustration at a project, I can just look at that picture and say "at least I'm not knitting that again!"!

On the plus side, I'm now back on schedule (and it's too warm for scarves by miles now) and have made a good dent in my wraparound moss stitch cardigan. For meee!