Fiber Dreams

I’m feeling more awake than I have in days. Slept the sleep of the dead—well, not dead dead—the last two nights, and am feeling fairly human again. Finally. Hopefully I’ll be able to sleep again tonight. Fingers crossed.

Canterbury Bells is coming along wonderfully. I nearly have the first half done. The central panel is done, as well as nearly half of the border. The border’s just a four-row repeat. See all of those little points? Each one represents four rows of knitting. Hopefully I’ll have time to get a bunch more done on that border this afternoon. Hopefully. We have a pile of errands to run today. Keep your fingers crossed for knitting time, too. One never knows how long errands will take when Dave is in tow. They tend to grow. Exponentially. Then end up in a pub. For sustenance.

Oh, in case you’re wondering, those are my knees on the left side of the left-most picture. And down in the lower left corner you can see one of Ricki’s toy mice. The dark blob to the right of the mouse is the cone of yarn I’m knitting from.

I got a little done on Tilt the last couple of days. Sure helps using bamboo needles. My knitting gauge is back to normal again. With luck, the second sock will match the first one. This time. As you can see in the photo, I’m done with the ribbing, and have knit up the first repeat of four for the cuff. Woot!

As an aside, I used the word “woot” in an email conversation with Dave the other day. He hadn’t heard it before, so he looked it up. Found it online, though spelled a trifle differently, spelled with zeros where the “o”s go: w00t.

The Loopy Ewe finally had the time to get the patterns I sent them up on their site. They’re busy bees over there. If you prefer printed copies of my sock and lace patterns to the .pdfs I sell here, that’s a place to get them.

Yesterday Helen of EarthFaire contacted me, asking if she can sell some of my lace patterns in her store. I said yes, we took care of some paperwork and such, and I packaged up some printed patterns. They’re going out in today’s mail. She’ll get them next week. Soon after that, I’m thinking, you’ll see them in her online store. Very cool.

I also got a wholesale query last week from Kathy at Shepherd’s Choice. She wants some blocking wire sets. We’re working on those for you, Kathy.

I decided to donate another prize to a cause. This cause is Summer of Lace 2008. Helen and friends Maria and Alyse are working at getting things set up. They have a Ravelry group going, and have or will be setting up a Flickr group. I found two Flickr groups. Don’t know which is the correct one. If someone knows, please tell me. I’ll make sure that link ends up in my blog. They’re also working on an official Seasons of Lace web site. I’ll link to that when they get it done. What will I be donating? Why a lace pattern of course. I offered a .pdf of the lace pattern of the winner’s choice.

That’s it for now. Gotta go get ready to run said errands. Hope you have a great weekend.

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