Thank you all for your wonderful comments on my Green Sea Cowl. It was a lot of fun to make & I know I will be getting a lot of use out of it. If anyone has any troubles with the pattern let me know so I can fix it asap! 
This weekend the MR cleaned out the back yard. We rented a dumpster & he made 11 billion trips with a tarp getting out the boginvia & morning glories out. Many battle wounds were procured in the process. The Boginvia alone has almost 1 inch thorns!
The inlaws came back from Alaska last night too. This is a trip that the Mr and I plan on making next year. They did the whole Alaska cruise thing & had an amazing time! I can’t wait to see ALL of their pictures! They, being amazing parents, brought back souvenirs. I had asked the MIL to be on the look out for muskox yarn. I told her “It’s probably horribly expensive, but if they have just a little baby skein, something not to expensive I would love it.” Instead this is what she brought me.
That there people, is 200+ yards of lace weight Qiviuk. I told her I wanted a natural non-processed color & she came back with this lovely almost purply brown. I guess their tour bus driver dyed & spun her own yarn & was telling them the properties of Qiviuk. I guess stitch pattern is waisted because when you knit with it the yarn just blooms. I’m really excited to knit this into a wonderful lace scarf. She mistakenly left the price tag on it & people, um I have knit an entire sweater for less than this. & remember, I’m no skinny chic that can knit an entire sweater out of 3 skeins of anything (well maybe eco wool). So as you can guess I feel ridiculously spoiled right now. Must size up & knit the teva duram sweater she was drooling over for her!
I also started this. Lots of linen stitch. It’s kind of a secret project for now because this isn’t going to be for me in the end. This is Panda Silk DK. My LYS got it in last week & I snatched 4 balls out of the bag before Lois could even price them. It’s quite lovely, but awfully splitty! The colors pool really bad, so I started using the linen stitches & I like the effect so far. It’s a very smooth fabric.
And because I have to continually prove my dorkness. I received my much obsessed over copy of Wild Knitting. People, don’t google it, you will be horrified that I actually looked for & purchased this. You want to know why I bought it? I bought it for the sole purpose of making this.
Yes, you now are all laughing hysterically or throwing up. It’s ok, take a moment to get it back together.
Honestly, I am going to knit this. Why? Because it’s so fantastically stupid & wonderfully ugly & totally floats my boat. See, my dad & I use to have this repeating dialogue when I was growing up.
Preita: I’m Hungy
Dad: “Hi Hungry, I’m Tony. What would you like for dinner?
Preita: “I don’t know”
Dad: “Armadillo it is!”
Sometimes armadillo was replaced with Aardvark or Anteater but since I don’t have patterns for thos (OMG I could totally do one though!) I am going to knit myself a flattened armadillo.
And you thought the armadillo was as bad as it got?
You could totally knit yourself a faux brick patio complete with knitted plants! Talk about totally classy!
And on a completely unrelated note, check out this awesome coffee cup I got at the fair last weekend!
I dig the 70’s owls & it’s huge. I like my coffee cups to hold at least 3 normal cups of coffee. The true sign of an addict!
Also. I’m knitting up a second version of my Hawk hat and will be offering the pattern free by the weekend. Just have to cement how I’m going to do the decreases & we will be ready to go.
I can’t wait to see the armadillo. It’s going to be AWESOME!!! I didn’t throw up or laugh either.
By: Secret Summer Love Swap Pal on August 18, 2008
at 4:49 pm
Qiviuk, the underhair of the muskox, the really warm under coat keeps them from freezing in the artic winter. Also found in the Northwest Territories of Canada. East of Fort Reliance, on Great Slave Lake resides one of the largest Muskox herds. In the short artic summer, the MO rub against low bushes to shed their winter coat. At the right time of year, this fine material can be collected by the Black leaf bag full. What keeps it very rare is that the MO usually don’t go within a hundred miles of any road. In 1990 I saw an oz of Qiviuk on sale for $175 (Canadian Dollars.)
By: 2cold2snow on August 18, 2008
at 5:38 pm
Awesome. I can now ambush John with
“Fine. If you don’t want to put the brick in for me in the patio, I’ll just knit it myself.”
Stomps foot and storms off.
By: Becky on August 18, 2008
at 11:43 pm
I think you should feel spoiled, very SPOILED. And another pattern? You are a fast one!
By: Beatriz on August 18, 2008
at 11:45 pm
Is it wrong that I want one of those brick rugs? This is what happens to you when you’re raised as part of the 70’s “macrame generation”
By: Rebecca on August 22, 2008
at 1:24 pm