I worked on the shawl this weekend; in fact I got down to the second tier and introduced the butternut (orangey) color.  You remember that? 

In it’s former life it was a yucky mustard color until I threw it in the crock pot with some red dye :) While the butternut works up to the same gauge as the Ultra Alpaca, it is a much denser yarn, more tightly twisted and coarser to the touch (have no idea what it was originally - it had no label).  The red I’ll be using later on is the same type of yarn.  But both colors will be in the interior of the shawl and what touches the neck will be the lovely, soft wool/alpaca so I don’t see this as a problem.  This isn’t a lace confection meant for evening wear over bare shoulders and/or back. 

This is a coat :)

Otherwise I’ve been driving myself crazy trying to find a sock pattern that I like.  I know, I could just make up my own pattern - I’ve certainly done it before.  My problem (not that it’s a weighty one, mind you) is that the yarns I have are multi-colored - they are gorgeous, soft, absolutely wonderful yarns that I love!  But they need a simple pattern.  Ev suggested ribbing at Chatters, Saturday night, and that’s probably an excellent way to go - but I’m afraid it would bore me to death and I would wind up with yet another abandoned sock. 

I did like the Persephone’s Socks.  In fact I like them so much that I decided to order the pattern. 

Myria mused that she should mark this day on her calendar - the smart-arse :)

The first site had a downloadable .pdf.  Excellent!  I could be working on these babies this afternoon.  Whups!  Paypal only…

The next site had the pattern, but would only snail-mail it.  Well, okay - I guess I could wait a few days.  The pattern was $5.00 - not bad.  The shipping was $6.00. 

Hows that again?

So I didn’t get the pattern after all.

I did, however, find a small knitting companion when I was out roaming around with my father.

My apologies if any of you attempted to join Chatters before 8:15PM (EST).  I had been out all day and simply lost track of the time.  Please forgive me and I’ll try to see that it doesn’t happen again :)

Have a great week!