Knit Sisters

Well, I gotta tell you, today I got nothing.  Nothing, nothing, nothing.  Plus I’m feeling just a little cranked out over this whole “back to school” idea.  My free days are growing short and I’m beginning to feel a little frantic, running around madly trying to cram in as much relaxation and fun as possible into these last precious days of summer.  That can make a girl tense and prone to snap at her loved ones.

So, in lieu of true blog content, I offer these photos of the day.

                                                                                         Harvey, with his brand-new backpack laden with brand-new school supplies.  He’s ready.

                                     Hugo, who says, “I don’t really want you to go back to school.  I like it when you’re home all day.”  I do too, Mr. Puppy, I do too.

                                   My progress on the Nicola cardigan.  I’m coming along on that first sleeve.  I think I’ll make these 3/4 length.  Also, I decided to finish all the edges on this thing with applied I-cord.  I know that I will want to stick a pin in my eye regret this decision 5 minutes after I start the I-cord and discover that I’ve only knitted 1/4 inch of it and then do a quick mental calculation of how long it will take me to go around the whole durned edge at that rate.  Good times ahead.

                                      Brown wool and chocolate angora combed together.  I want to spin this up real, real bad.  But first I must finish spinning this:

                                            Lime green superwash wool that I’m spinning to a sockweight 2-ply.  I have a plan for this which involves planting little tufts of the combed waste fiber into the 2-ply as I ply it.  Won’t that be fun?  (Picture the tufted yarn as the sock cuffs with some plain 2-ply for the feet.)

And finally,

                                               Rob.  With an egg. 

‘Cause nothing’s sexier than a man holding a hard-boiled egg.

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