sheep in the city

Hello? Anybody home?

So, I allowed myself to have a break from blogging this week...and what did I fill my time with? Maybe a little shopping and a little bit of casting on. Some people might try to get some projects finished...me? No way. I needed the thrill of the cast-on this week, and believe me, it helped!

On the family front, my Dad got his test results back...and nothing showed up on the scans that he had done. This is a good thing. It means that the cancer has not spread to the soft tissue/organs. But, this doesn't explain his elevated PSA levels. So, we wait some more. We are now dealing with what my Dad calls, "best guess medicine". The doctors really don't have an explaination, and therefore a treatment plan, for what he is going through. He really has an amazing team of doctors working with him and for him...so I totally trust what they are doing. I just hate all the waiting!

Back to knitting...I received my first installment in The Plucky Classics club from The Plucky Knitter. Oh boy was I excited on Wednesday when I pulled it out of the mailbox. I already knew that the first theme was going to be Jane Austen, what I didn't know is that it would be named for one of my favorite characters. It's Captain Wentworth from Persuasion. Love the name, love the yarn, and so far LOVE the club! Thanks Sarah for brightening my day with yarny-goodness. Oh, and the best thing? This yarn is so soft. It's 80% merino, 10% Cashmere, and 10% Nylon.

Isn't this yarn gorgeous?!

More pretty yarn...this time from Red Rocks Fiber Works. I couldn't resist when I saw it. It's also a 80 merino/10 cashmere/10 nylon mix. I have 650 yards of the stuff. Any suggestions on what I should do with it? I know that Mary-Kay is going to make a shrug out of hers. I'm dying to cast on something with it because it's just so pretty! That Mary-Kay is a talented one with the colors.

What's inside that bag?

It's yarn for the Parcheesi Afghan. I ran across this one on Ravelry, and I couldn't resist. It's just gorgeous. PLUS, it's a bonus that I had a lot of that cotton already set aside for a mitered square afghan. Since we made blankets for the kids in mitered patterns...I'm a bit sick of them. Hopefully by the end of the weekend I'll have my first big log cabin square done. I can't wait to see how the colors all come together in this project. The color palette that I chose is not one that I usually knit with, especially the blues, but since I was drawn to it, I just let it happen.

These last 2 projects are kind of funny. Last Sunday I had a wild hair to cast on for the cover sweater from the latest issue of Vogue Knitting. It's called the Sideways Cardigan. (see mine here on Ravelry) It has a really interesting construction and I figured out that I could use stash yarn for it. Even better! (I settled on cotton-ease in the discontinued color Strawberries and Cream) The bright pink project below is from the latest issue of Rowan Magazine. It's called Geno and I'm using Rowan 4-Ply cotton in the color Cheeky. The casting on will stop one of these days...but for now, I'm having a blast.

Posted by Stacey at May 2, 2008 07:11 AM