martinimade

In addition to The Sweater (I'm up to the armholes!), I'm working on a Liberated Laceweight scarf in Blue Moon's Silk Thread 2, color Lagoon. The actual appearance of the color in question is somewhere between this:

and this:

I also discovered that I have a couple of balls of fingering that I don't particularly like and can't remember why I have them. So, I'm making long skinny tubes

that will eventually have the thumb-bits knitted                     


in order to make a proper pair of fingerless mitts. My goal is to see how many of them I can get knitted out of odd balls between now and Christmas. I'm thinking they'll make great teacher gifts.

This has nothing to do with knitting.

I was coming around the corner into the dining room a few days ago. This is what greeted me.



I'm still not sure what he was hanging on to.



The cats, of course, took no interest. Useless, I tell you. Useless.