A Bluestocking Knits

Kinky

I got tired of seeing this unfinished project in the drawer, so I ripped it out this morning, and tied the wool back into skeins.

I must say, I get a bit of a kick seeing how kinky wool gets when it is knitted.  After washing, it was a sorry sight, though --

especially since it once was this --

Classic Elite Inca alpaca.  The color is apparently long-since discontinued, since I've had it around for I don't know how long.  (Cough--twenty years--cough.)  Very nice stuff, so soft, in a rich purple that the digital camera cannot seem to capture.  Here is the first repeat of the Beginner's Triangle from "A Gathering of Lace".

One of the things I like about blogging is that my resolve to finish things is much stronger.  Who wants to show off a bunch of half-started projects?!

August Knitogether

Marjorie invited me to her home and the August get-together with Siow Chin, Joy, and Eva, with Vivian and her sister.  I got to pore over a huge stash of new magazines and books (this one, too) as well as knit and admire everyone else's projects.  (Got to get me some of that Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud ....)  Thank you all -- mm-goi saai!

It had stopped raining when I got home, and was a surprisingly quiet afternoon, grey and still.  Julia had actually gone to bed for a nap on her own, and Laura was watching cartoons with the babysitter, so I made myself a cup of tea and read for a while.

Well -- I've recently joined two knit-alongs, one with a finite completetion date, so I'd better get cracking,

and the other, blissfully open-ended,

I have at least one, possibly two, baby projects in the planning stages -- am thinking of a certain wrap-style jacket from an old Knitter's magazine.  I have some Rowan cotton in a pretty girly purple from a completely stalled Debbie Bliss project (which would be better in a yarn that actually worked up to the right gauge, eh?), so I'll start swatching when we get home.