Dee at Posh Yarn received the Tilia patterns that I sent her before running off to TNNA. She’s kitted them up with 26 glorious colors of her luscious Diana yarn, and will be selling them starting at 8 pm UK time on Wednesday. The official preview will go up on her site tomorrow (Tuesday), but if you want to see the yarn colors ahead of time, Dee has a Flickr set out there that you can look at. Kit details are on the Posh blog. I’ll put the pattern details up on my site and Ravelry hopefully later today.

On the one hand, it looks like I’m making pretty good progress on the shawl I’m making with the lovely Kami Bison. On the other hand, I really wanted to be farther along than this by now. The weekend was more full than I expected, so not all that much knitting got done. I have two full repeats knit, though, and have started on the third. The picture below is the blocked swatch with the Kami Bison that I made after using different yarn to decide what stitches to use. There’s going to be just the one stitch pattern in the center of the rectangular shawl, with an applied border around the whole thing. The bison-blend yarn blocks beautifully, and is so soft that you almost don’t feel it sitting in your hand. Amazing stuff.

We finally figured out what’s wrong with my computer. Pretty much, anyway. The data drive is fine. The new housing that the data drive is in is fine. The problem is either with the motherboard or with the USB connector or bus where the data drive was plugged in at the back of the computer. We plugged the data drive into the USB connector at the front of the machine, and it works just fine. Go figure. We figured that out this morning. I have a new external drive on order—ordered it yesterday—it should be here later this week. I’m not sure at this point what we’re going to do with that one. Gads. Meanwhile, I’m very, very glad to be back in my home office using my own computer, and not limping along with the laptop on the dining room table.