A Little Rain Must Fall

Sorry for my even worse than usual lack of posting.  It's been a challenging week.  We were fortunate to avoid the massive flooding the plagued our area, and I'm thankful for that.  But I've had a number of personal and professional challenges and disappointments which, coupled with eight days of heavy rain and PMS, made blogging the last thing I wanted to do.  (Crawling in bed and not getting up, flinging myself off a tall building, or charging a plane ticket to a sunny locale were high on my list, but I didn't do any of those things, which I think shows a lot of fortitude.)

But I live my life by Elizabeth Zimmerman's wise instruction to "knit on through all crises," so I've done just that.  And I've continued to acquire sock yarn.  It's really a sickness.  Here's what I've bought over the last several weeks:

Left to right: black cherry Koigu, lilac solid from Sundara Yarn, blue/purple/turquoise Cherry Tree Hill, blue with purple from Sundara, and variegated green J.Knits. 

And the Lorna's should be arriving at the store any day now.  It's really a problem.

The sock in progress is Pomatomus from Knitty, and I'm loving the marriage of yarn and pattern.  The pattern is actually quite ingenious, and I'll certainly make another pair with some future acquisition.  The yarn is dyed with an overdye technique, so a little bit of purple shows through but it's mostly a deep aqua blue.  Very lovely.

I've also been working on another shawl for my sister's wedding - the Diamond Fantasy Shawl by Sivia Harding.  It's also a really wonderful pattern that I highly recommend; I especially like how the elegant border is knit along with the main body.  Photos of that and my most recently completed socks to come soon.

The sun is now shining brightly, and I'm telling myself it will all be okay. 

Comments

[Karola]

Alison, just plain old hugs! :-) i know i've become addicted too to the sock yarns.. but my addiction has been jacquards and stripes.. regia specificall or opal.. well i've certainly got enough for now.. haha..w e'll see what excuse i come up with later.. hee..hee.. hugs karola