A perfect Sunday in Park Slope

I woke up at 7:00 am to David's little voice saying "I have to go to the Food Coop, do you want Bagels & Lox or Pancakes?". As if that wasn't nice enough, I got out of bed and saw this out the window:


You can't really tell from the photo, but it was snowing. Now I am sitting on the couch, waiting for the pancakes (we were going to have lox, but David came home and found we had no cream cheese), and our firewood delivery. I used up the last log of last year's wood. I ordered a full face chord, and I'm going to spend all day tomorrow spinning by the fire!

Speaking of spinning. I bought some dreamy dark Blue Faced Leicester from Spunky Eclectic Fiber, to ply with the free 1lb of light Blue Faced Leicester that came with the wheel. Last night I gave my new jumbo plying head a whirl, and plied up my first 200 yards of yarn!!! Here it is on the plying head:


and on the niddy noddy


It's all over the place gauge wise. It goes from fairly chunky in spots (like 3 st/inch) to almost thread thin. I think I'll get between 600 - 800 yards when I finish spinning up everything. I should be able to make a 3/4 sleeve sweater I have in my head.


Last night after the shop closed, David came by to pick me up, and we hung out with Leia as she closed out the cafe (and she showed me the AWESOME shawl she's working on!) and I finally got around to balling the skeins of yarn I bought in Rhinebeck. Here's the Clapotis waiting to happen


And for Mr. Green Jeans (see pic below), here's the beauties awaiting that pattern



In my current knitting life, After knitting about 10" of the Vogue pattern Grey's Anatomy traveling cable sweater, I ripped it all out and conceded to this simple reality: good yarn, bad choice!. I was using Rowan Tapestry. It's a lovely self striping yarn. However, what bone head (read, me) thought that a horizontal self striping yarn and a vertical cable pattern would be a good match. I returned the yarn to my Point account (love the ability to change my mind!), and gobbled up 8 skeins of the brand new Manos Silk (as Homer would say "ahhhh, Manos Silk"). Here's the pattern I've picked out for my beloved Manos Silk (from my beloved Vogue magazine)

So for now, I'm knitting up the Pin Up from Stitch 'n Bitch, that I've been meaning to knit for YEARS, in a lovely worsted Alpaca. It's a short row sweater, which is always fun, but first I have to get through 13 1/2" of 2 by 2 rib (boring).

Oh, firewood is here! Gotta stack wood and then light up the fire.