Monday, monday

It's weird when a long weekend ends. It feels like today has been a Sunday - laundry, baking, general getting-ready-for-the-work-week stuff. But there was also lots of downtime and tomorrow will be Tuesday which makes work all strange too. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE a long weekend, it's just that it puts me out of whack a bit.

HOWEVER - I got stuff done, yessirreebob! See here, the first of mom's "Safety Socks", custom-fit and fitting pretty well. Although it does pooch a bit around the ankle bone, but she swears it's comfy, so it's all good. Now I just have to do the other one, but I messed up the cast on yesterday and had to frog it back to zero. Will try again tomorrow. Yarn is Jawoll Cotton.

See also, the "Seaweed Shawl", which is Fleece Artist "Curlylocks", not their new Sea Silk (oh, how I covet the Sea Silk!). When I saw this yarn in the store I thought it just looked like seaweed on the beach. Which made me homesick. So I had to get it, but I'd only been knitting about a month at the time so I was actually afraid to knit it up. Not anymore! I really, truly, ADORE Fleece Artist yarns (I know I've said this before), but this one, being my first, I think will always be my favourite. I don't know what that white blob in the bottom of the picture is, but the colours I think show up rather nicely. I didn't measure it but it reaches to my knees in back if I hold it at my shoulders, and to my butt if I actually wrap myself up in it. Light and warm and pretty and wonderful. And MINE ALL MINE!

Also finished the front of dad's cardigan, but no picture of that. Sleeve #1 is well underway - about 1/3 done, I think. Going to work on that pretty steadily this week in evenings so I'm hoping to have 2 sleeves by this time next week.

AND - I created a hat. Yes, from-scratch-my-own-design. Which is pretty cool, because I really hadn't planned on creating a hat when I made it. I was noodling around with some camel hair yarn (gorgeous stuff, BTW) and playing at making a skinny scarf. I held it up to the light and Peter said, "You know, that would make a cute hat." Ok, what the hey! I frogged the scarf and restarted it as a hat. And it's kinda funky and cool and I don't look silly in it (Yumi said so, it must be true).

I intend to submit the pattern for the 2007 Pattern-A-Day calendar (and post it free here too, of course), but I want to test-knit it in a couple of other yarns first. Hence, no picture yet. Once I get a couple more prototypes done I'll post pictures and pattern. I'm actually planning to make these for sale but need to scope out potential "real world" markets as I'm not ready for online salesmanship yet! So, more to come on that later. But it was a pretty cool long weekend.