2ktog

I haven't gotten around to taking any pictures lately, but sooner or later they'll come. Still, I figured it might be good for the Nielsen bloggers if I posted something. (How long is it going to be before there really are Nielsen bloggers which rate blogs? Or are bloglines and feedburner already that?)

Anyway, I had a bit of a soul-crushing moment when I discovered that I actually had a whole other ball of Bunny Print and could probably put another foot or so onto my wavy scarf if I undo the end. Argh!

I've cranked out two more squares for our afgan, but my personal tastes say that we should only snap pics of those when we have even sets of four. The two finished ones are a cub-scout square in blue and gold, and a sort of lichen-eriffic one in green and grey.

The tea-house sling bag is within a few long stockinetted inches of completion... Well, completion minus all of that embroidery, which is going to be where the thing gets challenging again.

The monk's travel satchel got onto some needles-- I'm doing the strap and the side pockets all at the same time, since they're just swatches of seed stitch. Betsy doesn't understand doing this sort of thing in parallel, but some inner hacker part of me doesn't want to go repeating the same square over and over again, if I don't have to. I already have those afgan squared if I want repetition. Heh.

I, too, cashed in on the Webb's tent sale the other weekend, picking up three skeins of Donegal tweed for about twenty bucks (list price more like thirty). Which means that the Irish Creel is back on needles, and the addictive joy of the basketweave stitch is once again dominating the spare motion of my hands. It's actually flying along, relatively speaking. I'm almost done with the piece that's the back and the flap. Eventually, there's going to be a 60" cabled strap to take care of, but that should be the ideal way to get a whole lot of cabling practice.

I've been procrastinating a lot of things, on account of my job (though things are fairly calm this week) and because my computer is ailing. I'm expecting a new hard drive on Friday, and it increasingly seems like anything more that I do is just one more thing that's going to have to be updated when I put the new drive in. So, the pictures might not arrive until sometime this weekend.

I'll be back, sooner or later!