Out of Town, Out of Touch

Thursday, July 19, 2007

I spent the last few days visiting my parents back home, and now I feel completely out of the loop of what's been happening in the knit blogging world. :P

Knitting-wise, there's been some progress (yay for me!). I finished the cabled purse late Saturday night since I wanted to take it with me on the trip. It turned out pretty neat and I found these really cute antique looking metallic buttons. Check out the mods on my FO page. I'm still re-considering the handles -- should I buy two more buttons and attach the handles at the sides (like in Aurora) instead of just the two ends?

I also worked on my lattice socks a bit. I turned the heels, finished the heel flap on sock #1, and got about half-way through the second heel flap on the 3.5-hour car drive to my parents. Started on the cuffs late Sunday night. They're a little loose around the ankles because the pattern has you increasing 10 sts immediately above the heel. I'm not sure it was the wisest decision but I think it'll even out once I reach the calves. Unfortunately it was too hot to knit on the car on the way back so that's about how far I got.

Speaking of socks, my brother's new puppy (not really, she's a year-and-a-month old already) took a liking to my Monkey socks. She snatched them from my bag and started carrying them around. :D I had to hide them from her before any damage occurred. Here's said puppy playing a tug-of-war with my bro on another sock. Apparently, she appreciates hand-knit items.

On Monday, we went to a large shopping district a couple of hours' drive away. There was supposed to be a crafts/yarn store in the area but they'd apparently closed down... without bothering to update their website or even to remove the sign by the side of the road. The department store carried only the same yarns you get everywhere around here so no vacation S.E.X. for me. :(

I did score some yarn, though. My mom had bought me three generous cones of Estonian sock yarn from a shop called Apleks (whose website used to be at www.aplekstekstiil.com but seems to have disappeared now) from their trip to Tallinn, Estonia. It feels a bit scratchy even though it's supposed to be 100% superwash merino. Can't wait to see how it knits up -- I've been looking for a wine-colored yarn to do Clessidras in and this might be it.

Off to catch up on the gazillion unread posts I have waiting on Google Reader and Ravelry forums!

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