Work has been crazy lately. I still make time for knitting on my lunch break (when I’m not reading trashy novels based on Supernatural…yes, my friends and I have the coolest book club ever!) and while commuting, but even with the long summer evenings, it’s hard to make time for photography. Blogging is important, though, so I carved out some time this morning for a little update.
(More under the jump.)
I occasionally do purposefully surround myself with one particular colour, but most of the time it just sort of seems to happen in waves, like when I used to dye my hair pink and yellow, or pink and purple and blue, and I’d end up with matching earrings completely by accident. Lately it’s like purple yarn has just been following me home. Yes, it’s my favourite colour, but it’s not like I don’t buy others. Anyway.
I’m now 4 repeats into my Rhodion stole. So, after the first few rows it’s actually not so hard, no tougher, really, than other lace I’ve worked, just a little longer repeats. I love it, and it’s perfect with the yarn, but as it turns out, I was totally right that rectangular stoles that hold one lace pattern for most of their length don’t satisfy my crazy novelty-seeking lace!brain.
The slim mini sized Ur-Bun Hoodie is coming along. I tried it on its intended model today and my arithmetic worked out, it fits great! I love this kind of berry purple, too.
As I’m spending the summer in the role of some sort of responsible, lower-management type person with a work phone and a keycard that I need to carry with me as I tramp hither and yon, I’ve felt the need for a little purse to carry them in (apparently, pockets are not in style in women’s pants these days). I have the net bag that sufficed to carry my keycard on the cruise ship, but since it’s a drawstring I’ve missed a phone call or two trying to finagle my phone out of its grasping maw, so flap-top it is. This need appeared in my life not long after the Pretty Twisted Wristlets appeared in Knitty with their linen stitch and their impressively smooth slipped-stitch edging, so linen stitch it was! My first time working with it, and I really like it. I have plans to use it in a design that will coordinate thematically with Ur-Bun, but more about that down the road.
Finally, I’m still plugging away intermittently at Ivy. I went back and fixed the problematic front; now everything matches up as it should and I’ve started on the sleeves. Hopefully I’ll have it done in time for fall (although the weather this summer has been cool enough for cardigans quite frequently so far).
But I’m pretty sure the next yarn I use is just not allowed to be purple. Somebody save me from myself! I need some orange! Or green! Hmm, perhaps a trip to the yarn store is in order?
Undermost Salamander Knits 
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