Knitting updates

• Lucille sweater is about 1/3 finished-- though that's before I rip back and restart the sleeves!
• Bought some GORGEOUS Louet Gems for an as-yet-undetermined birthday present for Vickie.
• I discovered Addi Turbo (and Addi Turbo Lace!) needles and I am now obsessed. I'm buying up all the small sizes and praying for an improvement to the Addi Clicks so I can have interchangeable Addis!
• The Drop-Stitch Scarf has been sadly neglected. I think I may have lost the pattern, too!
  

Knitting updates

• Nicole received the finished Alpaca purse!
• Hannah's Lucille is making me lose my mind
• I have temporarily abandoned the drop-stitch scarf, sadly it will not be finished in time for Alicia's b-day

My suitcase went to Puerto Rico but I did not

Worshipping:

Knitting updates (with lots of exclamations!)

• Mostly finished with the alpaca purse-- in a stroke of genius I am making the ties from tiny 2-stitch i-cords!
• Unravelled two old J.Crew cashmere sweaters-- piles of yarn!
• Started the vertical drop-stitch shawl using the yarn leftover from the Muir shawl
• Purchased more Canopy Fingering to make baby gifts for Hannah!
  

Random Reading

My method of choosing books lately is to go to a used book store and comb through the fiction section until I have a stack of things that look good. Today's haul:

• Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
• The Keep by Jennifer Egan
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas-- with funny cartoons on the jacket
• Alfred and Guinevere by James Schuyler (from the NYRB Classics series-- I snatch up these books whenever I see them)
• A Sea of Words-- a companion to the Aubrey-Maturin series, which I adore
  

Recent developments

• My mother is WAY more excited about my wedding than I am
• Minnie the cat has a slipped patella
• I can't figure out what government body has authority over Kettle Cove in Cape Elizabeth
  
• I'm working on a trinity-stitch purse in Canopy Fingering baby alpaca by the Fiber Company-- so yummy
• I joined Ravelry
• Eric and I have been playing Zelda obsessively
• Emily & Andrew are coming to visit next weekend!!