I just came back from my 2nd guitar lesson. And I thought he dumped a lot on me last week! I could practice 2 hours a day and not be ready for my next lesson. Wow. It’s so totally cool. As I thought, I’m learning stuff I wouldn’t have known to ask to be taught. And my instructor was much warmer this week, and even a little funny. We’ll get there.

So, a quick catch up… I’m almost through with 11 out of 13 repeats on the Angel Lace shawl, and have finally run out of my first skein of yarn. So I need to ball the second and finish it up. I’m going to end up using a lot less yardage than the pattern calls for, and that is really weird.

Sam and I went to the yarn store on Saturday afternoon and picked up more yarn for his scarf, so I’ve resumed work on that. It’s my new traveling, mindless knitting project. We also bought three skeins of fuzzy, purple laceweight for the third of those things I’m being cryptic about. And I happened to see something I couldn’t live without. That so rarely happens to me in a yarn store. Usually, I see lots and lots of things I really like, get overwhelmed and balk at the $$$, and leave a store with nothing. I’m not much of a yarn buyer. But on Saturday, I was on a mission to acquire yarn for Sam’s scarf

and that other thing,

and then I saw it.

It’s delicious. It’s laceweight. And now it’s mine.

I’ve bought 12 skeins of laceweight in the past month. Whoa.

The pink and purple socks are stalled out for now. (I’m kind of stressing about having four works in progress. I need to finish some things). Anyway, Abby likes the socks, and wants them either as socks, or at her suggestion, fingerless mitts.

Ooh.

Now there’s a thought.

It’s weird, but I think they’d look pretty as fingerless mitts, and hideous as socks. Exactly as they are, not changing a thing. How does that work?