I spent an absolutely decadent day...well, for me anyway......

First on the agenda was to face the laundry monster. I had been neglecting the pile which somehow managed to grow so high it filled not one but two laundry baskets to the unheard of height where I almost needed grappling hooks to get to the top. I actually had a dream last night that it turned into a scary monster and chased me down the hallway. It was apparently time to deal with it woman-o a laundrybasket-o

After that, I sat and actually knitted something. I had spent most of the weekend swatching and trying out different yarns for the Woodland Shawl. First I tried my laceweight of my yummy Indigo Moon:




but it was too thin

Then I tried the fingering weight

but I found that the lace got lost in the beautiful colours. I'll use this for a more solid fabric.

Then I remembered that I had a bunch of Drops Alpaca in my stash. This memory was triggered by a chance meeting I had with a very nice gentleman that I met at The Purple Purl on Saturday. (I'm sorry to say that I neglected to get his name). He was knitting a yummy sweater out of a mustard coloured skein of the Alpaca. I remembered that I had bought some for my ill-fated attempt at the Mystery Stole #3 and it had been languishing in my resource centre ever since.



And it was just right






I chose not to knit it on larger needles because I want a firm fabric, not something too lacy, which a larger needle would have given me. This is around 40 rows of knitting and it measures about 3" tall. This will not be a quick knit (even by my slowpoke standards) as it's knit on a 2.5mm needle in fingering/sock weight.

As usual, Clancy wanted to help with the photo session. Pay no attention to the disaster behind her. Please



Clanzy sez:



I'll get off of the nice knitting if you give me some Easter kitty treats!


Hoppy Easter everyone - hope the yarn bunny brought you something nice for your baskets