Wedding Eve

It's the eve of the Royal Wedding. I'm quite geared up for it and hoping to finish the ribbing on the mate to my Brewster Contemporary socks. I knit the first one with a Strong Heel which enabled me to continue the pattern until it was time to start the heel turn. There were posts about the pattern using a lot of yarn, but I still have enough left in the first skein that I think I can finish the ribbing of the second sock befoe I need to join the second skein.

KAL wonders: The colourwork kal starts in a week. I've really wanted to knit EZ's Mitered Mittens and think I will use a Battenburg colourwork pattern around the wrist. The amazing thing when I was looking at the patterns suggested and other colourwork patterns, was realizing that all my winter accessories are a solid colour. I tend to like patterns and colour in my coats. It so drab to see everyone in black, brown or khaki coloured coats in winter. You see the occasional yellow or red. Not very many perwinkle coats or spring green. I do have one black coat. A jacket that is a riot of all sorts of colours from lime green, burgundy, and navy. I only have one pair of gloves, my Night Before Christmas Gloves, which are black and white.

There is also a shawl kal which includes both crochet and knit patterns. Again I wasn't wild about the choices and think if I do take this on, I will knit The Tess of the D'Urbervilles Shawl. It cross in the front and ties in the back. Perfect for those chilly air conditioned days in the Meditation Center.

I've also started the Cherry Bomb Tank, but am making it in Cotlin in brown. The trick here will be if I have enough yarn to finish. I'm starting out 75 yards short and need to add 5 or six repeats of the bust darts for the girls. Watch this space.

KP has also come out with a new yarn, Dishie. 100% machine washable and dryable cotton. I want to knit either Joan McGowan-Michael's plus sized pencil skirt with this or Espenson Tee or maybe both as a suit :)

Toupie has been his usual kitty self: going through grocery bags, treating me as a hurdle in a steeple chase when I'm in bed, running into the neighbor's apartment. We've both been a little miserable this week due to the hot muggy weather. Maintenance ran out of air filters; so no AC until they arrive and are installed. I don't know where the most cat hair lies: on kitty or on my sheets. He must have known I am blogging about him: he's arrived wanting a cuddle and a place to march.

I bought a Skybar tonight. It cost $1.50 and I bought it at a gourmet market: one of the only places you can find them these days. Interestingly, this has been my favourite candy bar from when I was a toddler. I can remember getting them from the counter at the market in Pittsburgh. And my devastation upon moving to Washington and not finding them for years. They reappeared when I was in my late teens and disappeared about a decade later. Now they're at Marvellous Market of all places. Maybe Beeman's will come back. Where's Chuck Yeager when we need him.

I'm hoping this weekend to get in some work with photography. Azealas are out and lots of trees are blooming. I want to try out some of the techniques I learned in the photography book.