Trying

I'm trying so hard to find fibery things to talk about.

I mean, my Tatami sweater seems to be permanently stuck at the halfway point. The sleeves for my Celtic Icon--which I'm working on every night--don't seem to be making noticeable progress. An inch a night. Maybe. If I'm lucky.

On the plus side, Mom's socks are at least moving. I'm trying very hard to get them done for Mother's Day for her. I started them, you'll remember, the weekend after her birthday. Which makes sense, since they're her birthday present. We went out to buy the yarn together and everything . . . but of course, it's been three months now, and Mother's Day here in the U.S. is on Sunday, so . . . that's my new goal.

The progress report? The feet are done. The heels are done. And I've got about half of the length of the leg done . . . so at least progress is being made.

There's always the time in the car on Saturday to catch up, too. We spend about 5 hours in the car on the way up to Martha's Vineyard, of which we each drive half. So I should have about two and a half hours of passengering, some of which will be spent reading aloud, but some of which can certainly be spent knitting.

I'm planning ahead, though. I've wound (optimistically) two more skeins of Silky Wool for my sleeves on the fairly remote chance that I'll get to a point on the sleeves where I need more yarn. (Yeah. Like I said. Optimist.) But I also wound some more sock yarn--the two skeins of Claudia Handpaint "Walk in the Woods" that I won from Kim in March. I'm not entirely sure that this will be the next sock yarn I use. I'm sorely tempted by the Seawool, too. The Claudia Handpaint actually has more blue in it than appears in this photo--which makes it very "beachy," I think, and of course, the Seawool has SeaCell in it, which also makes it "beachy," so really, either would do wonderfully on Martha's Vineyard, don't you think?

Oh--and the book from yesterday? I returned it today and am thinking I won't bother with the English version. (Not unless whoever recommended it in the first place--I'd pre-ordered it at least a couple months ago--can remind me of WHY I ordered it to begin with.) But--when choosing my "Reason for Return" at Amazon's site, I was seriously tempted to select "Product is not fully compatible with my existing system." Because, of course, it's not since my "system" doesn't speak or read Spanish, but . . . I figured they wouldn't get the joke . . .

Comments

[Chris]

LOL - oh, you should have given in to temptation on the return!! :)

[minnie]

what a lovely way to spend mother's day, at MV!

[Carole]

It's pretty universal to over pack yarn for a trip!

[Kim]

Have a great time at MV! I started a pair of socks with SeaWool and it's very stretchy and almost slippery. Silky. So far it's good, but I think I prefer regular Fleece Artist sock yarn. Maybe you should bring both and decide once you get there.