This year, for Knit and Crochet blog week, we are to pick a house that we identify with. The descriptions for each house are listed on Eskimimi’s site.
At first, I thought I might belong to the House of Bee: Bees are busy and industrious, but can flit from one interesting project to the next as bright and shiny things capture their interest.


I am attracted to new shiny projects, but, I tend to be nearly monogamous on projects and I do so love to learn new things, so I really think I must be a Monkey.

The House of Monkey: Intelligent and with a fun loving side, Monkeys like to be challenged with every project presenting them with something new and interesting.
 

hmmm. Maybe a flying monkey?

As you know, I’m knitting the Leafy socks. I wanted to do extra leg repeats, so I ordered a second hank of Shady Verdant from Hazel Knits. A dye mistress called me to discuss where I’d bought the yarn (Gauge Knits in Austin) so she could try to match the base and let me know when it was going in the mail. The hank that showed up with a nice note from Wendee was almost an exact match for what I had, except that it was a tad prettier.

As it turns out, the first hank had plenty left for a second sock, so now I have another yummy hank of Shady Verdant in the stash. Winning!

It was pretty outside last weekend and The Husband and I were lazing about under a tree soaking it all in Saturday. I’d taken my knitting out but it was lounging forgotten on the pattern amidst the green grass while I reclined on a football blanket…and Sydney was milling around sniffing for truffles or some such thing when I hear, “your yarn!” from The Husband. It seems Sydney had been eating a bit of grass and had mistaken my yarn for yummy blades. Thankfully, the yarn was not broken and appeared none the worse for wear other than being slimed. She had quickly realized that it did not taste like the salad she was after. I laughed and took it in to the house to soak that section in some water and eucalan. I ended up having to manually wipe the dog slobber off the yarn, but it held up perfectly. Toe decreases done Sunday with dry yarn.


Second sock is in progress.

I’ve almost finished reading Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off (a Yarn Harlot book). This one is fine, but is not my favorite. I recommend Knitting Rules or All Wound Up.

Ps. To see what other folks are working on, go check out Tami’s Amis and Small Things Yarn Along.