Ahh, Sunday

Here's the Lagoon scarf, all blocked (it really didn't need much) and ready for the world. It's soft and dreamy, and I wish I could be wearing it now!

All the specifics about the yarn and pattern are in an earlier post. I like this pattern so much that I want to make it again in a really different yarn, perhaps Manos, or something thick and cushy.

I had a little help with the blocking from Miss Annabelle herself. First, she spent a bit of quality time with her pot of catnip. Here she is protecting it from predators:

Next, stoned out of her mind exhausted from the effort, she came inside to take a nap. On the damp scarf, of course. No wonder there's cat hair in everything I knit! She looks annoyed, but she's really purring like crazy.

My Day With Cat wasn't nearly as eventful as Amie's, but it was plenty for me.
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I had an itch to spin something, so I rummaged around in the stash and came up with this Targhee/Alpaca/Silk/Cashmere blend from Spirit Trail Fiberworks. It's a lovely oatmeal color, a bit noily and textured, which I really like. After the Lagoon Experience, which was a lovely challenge, I can use this more easygoing, but just as interesting, wooly work. I have a 75-yard sample so far, and I have a total of 7 ounces of fiber. Plenty for something warm to wrap up in, I think.
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I finished one of the Calla Lily socks and I'm working my way down the cuff of the second one. This yarn is my favorite sock yarn ever. Or so far. But that's saying something, considering my infatuation with Socks That Rock. Really, Sundara's yarn is so soft and the colors are so well-done that I don't want to stop knitting these socks. In the meantime, I've been neglecting my STR Fairgrounds socks. They look good, but I don't know if I like the medium weight yarn for socks for me. I'll make up my mind one of these days.
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Another work week is about to begin, and I barely made it through the last one. We sold books at a cocktail party for an author yesterday, and I'm still not over my brief encounter with the Beautiful People in their natural habitat. All those photos you see in shiny fashion and gossip magazines? You know, with everyone kissing and smiling and Being Seen? Yeah.

Is it still Saturday?

Saturday Sky!

A glorious morning sky gave way to haze and clouds later in the day. I spent my Saturday, as usual, working at the store. Tomorrow is all mine, though!

When the calla lilies are in bloom

(Didn't Katherine Hepburn have that line in a movie?)

What a weekend! My sister and I spent a little too much time with the Summer People on Saturday and Sunday, and she was a better sport about it than I was. We snuck on to a beach at dusk on Saturday (well, actually, anybody can, after sunset), but the rest of her visit was spent out in the world among the cars and the shoppers and the insanity. We ate all our meals out (how decadent and Hamptony is that?), and went shopping and visiting, just like everybody else. It was so much fun she wants to do it again at the end of the month!

My sis helped me choose the fabric for my KSKS sock bag. Now all I have to do is sew it up. And choose yarn, and a sock pattern, and stuff like that. At least I made a start!

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I finished the Lagoon scarf last night, but it needs a little bath before it makes its debut. I was dying to cast on something new, even though my Pile of Knitting keeps growing. I'm bored with all the other socks that I'm making, so I started the Calla Lily socks from the Petals Collection. Mine are pooling, but in an interesting stripey sort of way, so I think I'll let them. The others that I've seen make more regular stripes, sort of like STR. I love this yarn (it feels a bit like Fleece Artist or Cherry Tree Hill). Love it. It's incredibly soft and the colors, of course, are beyond beautiful. Sundara has an incredible sense of color, and a real dyer's hand.You can tell this is amazing yarn, even in a photo taken on this dreary afternoon.

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Our village held its annual Fourth of July parade yesterday, just as did communities all over America. I took a lot of pictures, hoping to capture some of what makes this small town so special -- the many groups of volunteer firefighters and EMT's, the little bands of Revolutionary War reenactors, the Scouts, the bagpipers, the marching bands, the Lodges and Veteran's groups -- but what I was really waiting for came near the end of the two-hour parade.

It took a court order, but the Unitarian and Quaker churches, and all the people who were brave enough to join them, marched for Peace.

None of the other pictures I took said anything important, after all.

Hazy Saturday Sky

Main Street, on my way to work this morning.
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Look out! It's Project Spectrum PURPLE Month! I think I can handle that!
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My sweet sister S. is on her way right now ... our visit will be short, and we'll have to navigate our way through and around the crowds, but I'm looking forward to a day of fun tomorrow!