I have a couple more Dulcavina pictures for you. The first one is with the sides and end pulled out and pinned down. Before taking the second picture I pulled out all the pins, picked up the end of the stole, “fluffed” it, laid it down again, and then took the picture. I’m booking right along with the border at this point. I’ve turned the third corner, and am about half way down the first motif, so about 1/6 of the way along. I have a rhythm going, so the knitting’s going fairly quickly now. Just this final straightaway to knit, then the final corner. I’m holding my breath while I knit, still hoping that I’ll have enough yarn. Gads.

On Saturday Dave and I went to a new—well, to us—used bookstore in Costa Mesa. It’s certainly not the largest used bookstore I’ve been in, especially when you consider the fact that they also sell used DVDs and CDs (yes, we got a few movies, too), and that there is a significant amount of inventory that’s in Japanese. In spite of all that we both managed to find some gems. I got four books to read, three Patricia Cornwell novels featuring Kay Scarpetta (Black Notice, Trace, and At Risk), and a Mercedes Lackey book (When Darkness Falls). The Lackey book is naturally book three in a trilogy that I am missing the first two books of, but that can be fixed. In fact, I mooched one of the other books from someone at Book Mooch, and have the other book on my mooch wish list. I spent four bucks on these four books. Total. Yup. Just a buck each.

I lucked into two other books that I’ve been wanting for quite a while, Kaffe Fassett’s Kaleidoscope of Quilts and Charlene Schurch’s Sensational Knitted Socks. Not quite the deal the other books were, but at half price for nearly new condition I’m not going to complain. Point of fact, you would have had a difficult time getting either of them away from me. I have most of Fassett’s books, so how could I possibly turn this one down? The colors alone are incredible, plus I have some ideas for adapting one or two of these into knitting patterns. I know. Fun, huh? And the sock book. You can’t have too many sock books. This one has some patterns in it that I particularly like.

Thought I’d share this video with you. Dave just sent it to me. Do not watch it if you are afraid of heights. The trail is incredible. The trail was built in 1901, and is now the entrance to a climbing area in El Chorro in southern Spain. All I can say is Wow. I want to go. But I would so need someone to help me over a couple of those spots. You’ll see…