i really needed the weekend to get things together around this joint. sometimes when i arrive home at night, i’m not able to speak much less knit or get back on the computer to do the needed blog maintenance. KP was out in vegas all last week attending the IAPP privacy conference and didn’t arrive back home till saturday night which left me with much of the day to sit in front of the computer and get my updates done. moveabletype then design… i thought about updating the gallery too (i use gallery 1.4 and to upgrade to either 1.5 or 2.0 would have meant major changes around here and i just couldn’t bring myself to do it) but didn’t want to blow away the part of my site that gets the most traffic so i let it be with only an update to the stylesheet. i won’t be joining the flickr brigade just yet.

so now with the site lookin’ so brand spankin’ new, it’s time to give you all the updates. first of all, the spiders numbers have grown by two over the past couple of weeks. veronique and marie have joined us the past two knit sessions at the point and we’re so happy to have them.

marie demonstrates spinning to veronique and sarah

i’ve also been working on a few new projects. i picked up two skeins of morehouse merino 3-ply after rhinebeck and i must say that this is some damn soft yarn. i bought it out of the broken ends barrel at $6 per skein which means that there were several knots and loose strands but i just felted them back together! i used them to knit up a hat for KP friday night and saturday. it all started off fine…

love those stitch markers!

but the end result left much to be desired…

it’s a bit bunchy

i don’t really like it. not at all. at least, not on KP. the top of the hat is all bunchy because i used k2tog instead of skk which would have been flatter. i’m going to knit up a second hat seeing as i have plenty of yarn left.

i also started my sleepy pillow mitered square project. i’ll need 8 in total and i finished 1 yesterday. here it is on the needles.

ecru is not a color that photographs well

sorry about the image quality. ecru is one of those colors that’s either too hot or too cold when photographed. anyway, you get the picture. only 7 more to go! i also finished mom’s first sock (as mentioned in the previous post)…

and started on the second one last night. i’m really quite happy with the way the first one turned out. the second one will no doubt be better since i probably won’t have to rip it out as much. ok, for more info on projects please check out the backpack: projects in progress, in the queue, 2005 finished projects. i updated them all over the weekend.

the patterns page should be up and running by the end of the week (maybe sooner) so, in the meantime, if you’re still looking for the bulky circular bolero pattern, please use the contact form.