Mr Poopers Day Out

I have been knitting, but everything else had taken blogging precedence in the last week. Amazingly I have finished things!  

Budding Lace Shawlette

Pattern: Heavily modified Swallowtail Shawl meaning I only knit the budding lace porition of the pattern because it’s so easy and brainless and fun.
Yarn: 1 skein Malabrigo Lace in colorway Vaa
Needles: US 3 addi turbos extra pointy
Verdit: My new favorite scarf. I never thought I could do the whole triangle scarf thing, but if it’s the right size then you don’t get the old lady immage so badly

Is there anything better than Malabrigo in any incarnation? I say no. All we need now is a Malabrigo Tweed

Lace Detail

I also finished my own version of the Textured Shawl.

Textured Shawlette

Yarn: Temptation Sock in Hazardous
Needle: US 5
What I did: 6 rows of st st, 4 rows garter st, 6 rows st st, 5 pattern repeats texture st then repeat from beginning. I also opted to have YO’s for the increases instead of M1 which was only to help me keep my place
Verdict: I dig it. The color is a little hard to coordinate, but it’s a good sized scarf & smooshy to boot.

I bought Cookie A.’s book last night. Yeah, I’m probably the last person to jump on this band wagon but the book didn’t immediately call to me. At first glance I only liked one pattern, but then, last night, the overwhelming urge took me and I started to really look at the book. I think I love almost every single pattern (quite a feat for any book!). So I am busily knitting away on kai-mei.  I was so overwhelmed by all the pretty pictures that I made the Mr pick a sock pattern and not surprising at all he picked the most architectural one of the bunch.

This weekend I’m heading back up to Solvang to my friend Mette & Tom’s ranch (Ranch of the Oaks) because they are shearing all the animals.  Not only do I hope to just spend some friendly alpaca time but hopefully also be some help! I will come back with the standard 500 pictures I’m sure because we are staying up there all weekend.

And since I haven’t given you a Bob picture in almost a week here you go.  (Why so much Bob and no Sue or Ed? Because he’s the only one that constantly needs to be near me, the orange cats do their own thing during the day.)

Bob Toes