It was way too hot over the weekend to knit much of anything, especially anything with any bulk at all. It was also too hot to think much. Certainly too hot to dig through stitch pattern books, chart, plan, swatch, and think.

Since I already had a very specific plan for the Tenaya mitts, I had yarn (several choices), the charts were done, I cast on. And knit. A lot. Starting Friday afternoon, and before 8 am on both Saturday and Sunday we were in the TV room watching monster movies on Sci Fi—from rampaging tigers and bears to the t-rex and other prehistoric beasts. It was a good B-grade movie weekend. But I digress.

The stitch pattern is the same as Merced. The yarn is Dream in Color Smooshy in Nightwatch, left over from knitting Mingus. The pattern seems to be working out well so far. The first finished mitt fits like a glove. (Tee hee.) The second mitt is well on its way. I was laughing too hard—and paying too little attention to what I was doing—at knit night last night, so I have to frog a few rows. No biggie. Not that I haven’t done that before.

I don’t know if I’m doing it right. The directions aren’t exactly clear—to me, anyway. But I did manage to get a bit more done on my No-Sew Felted Bag early on Saturday morning, then again last night at knit night. I hope I’m doing it right. We’ll see. If I am, it’s terribly clever. If I’m not, well, it still might be terribly clever, just not clear. Fingers crossed.

I’ve been having horrible luck in finding beads to use on the shawl I’m going to make for my dear friend Karen (sadly blogless). I’m going to be making her two shawls as payment for taking time out of her weekend and meeting me at Stitches West back in February. One will be a triangle, the other a rectangle, and one of them will be beaded. One’s red; one’s purple. Now you know everything I do. Except this: Kristie ran by a bead store that’s near her house yesterday, and bought some glorious beads for me: red, purple, and black. I have some serious swatching to do to figure out what’s going to be what, what will be beaded, what won’t… You know. All that stuff.