Beginning the Blog

I'll start with a project.

Yesterday, while checking out a local yarn store I had not visited before, I picked up some Rowan Colourscape, the new yarn in colorways designed by Kaffe Fassett, as an impulse buy at the register. When I got home, I quickly finished up my slouchy llama hat and cast on for a simple seed-stitch scarf with the new yarn. It's beautiful.

I call this project Seedy Berrylicious. It's just a seed-stitch pattern (cast on 17 stitches on size US 10 needles). I swatched about a dozen stitch patterns before settling on this simple one to highlight the long and gradually changing stripey color sections. I don't think this will be my last project with this yarn, so stay tuned!

In my non-knitting life, today we had "downtown adventures," as Sam calls them. I took a few pictures on my iPhone, which I'll upload later, but for those tuning in only to see Sammy, here he is enjoying his breakfast this morning.

Bagel Smile.
Regular Smile.
Sam's question today: Um, Dadda, why there better bagels in the world?
For breakfast he ate 2 whole ones with cream cheese and lox. He's our bagel boy.

Oh, and here's that lovely llama hat knit out of 2 skeins of Miski Mirasol using the Slouchy Copy Cat Hat pattern. It is so soft and stretchy with lots of violet bits, and this picture really doesn't do it justice. It was a fun, quick knit finished in several days--including a bit of knitting at the Mariner's Stitch-n-Pitch.