Author: Laura

1. Check out Elann’s Sneak Peek page! Silkroad Ultra, Aran Tweed, and Aran are all on sale this week! I want to order a few balls of the white ultra for winter accessories…but must. not. spend. money. Besides, if I don’t make an effort to get up, it’ll all be gone by the time I awake tomorrow anyway.

2. To the Americans in the audience – does anyone know where to buy Jane cosmetics? I’ve got this lip gloss that I’ve loved for the past several years, but I didn’t find it when I went to the states in September. I don’t even know if they have it anymore – it’s called LipKicks, in Cranberry kicker or something like that.

Lots of productivity round here. Very little of the academic kind, but there it is.

Big Wool Cardigan
yarn: Rowan Big Wool, 8 balls
colour: Merry Berry (discontinued)
needles: Pony Pearl, US 17, 60 cm (24 inch) circular
pattern: cast-on based on the raglan generator, everything else by me
started: october 22, 2004
finished: october 24, 2004

manos legwarmers
yarn: manos del uruguay, 1.5 skeins
colour: 104
needles: swallow casein 5mm double points
pattern: by me
started: october 17, 2004
finished: october 24, 2004

I just Eucalan-ed the legwarmers and they’re drying now. As to the cardie, I’m working on some pockets – I finished one at SnB today, and I’ll do the other one tonight in front of the TV and Star Trek: Enterprise.

I’ve finished my big wool cardie.

It’s everything I had hoped for! Hurrah! Comfortably oversized but not too big, warm and cushy – I think I’ll add some patch pockets, as well (I’ll work on them at SnB tomorrow). Pictures tomorrow.

Still not loving the colour, but I can perhaps live with it as the sweater is PERFECT.