Well folks, I know it's been over a month since the last time I posted, but I'm back! I hope there's still someone out there reading.The last post I made was before my trip to Singapore and Thailand. The trip was great! I saw so many new things and tried so many different kinds of foods. I have to admit that my stomach is not quite up to handling all the food they have over there. The hamburger I ate the night I returned to the US seemed like the best thing in the world :) I've been a little lazy since I've been back so I still have to go through all my pictures, but once I do, I promise to post some good ones.
During the trip I worked on the cabled scarf. I actually didn't work on it nearly as much as I thought, even on the airplane. I finished maybe 6-8 inches, but that's it. Ever since then it's been sitting on my couch staring at me. I don't know if cables are really my thing.
I was still dealing with my jet lag, i.e. falling asleep at 8:30 PM (which if you know me, I never ever do), when I got some food poisoning from a local restaurant. Actually, it was my first day back at work and we had decided to go out to lunch. Big mistake! I felt pretty crummy that whole week and part of the weekend. So crummy that I wasn't even knitting or crocheting or doing crafts of any kind.
But, that all changed last weekend when I went up to Willows and Paradise to watch my boyfriend in his second and third race of the season (race pictures are still in the pile to go through too). One day, we had a couple of hours in between qualifying and the actual race so I took out my Silk Shrug to work on. Bammm! I'd gotten my knitting mojo back! I don't know what it was, but suddenly I didn't want to put it down. I even marched up to the little grandstand on the hill with a ball of yarn in one pocket and the shrug in my arms to watch another race because I couldn't leave it alone. The shrug managed to grow over two inches Memorial Day weekend and has probably grown another inch since I got home.
That brings us to this week where I have finished my first Snuggle. It's a medium sized blanket. I have about five more skeins of the ultra-bright rainbow yarn which will be used to make many more snuggles. My Mom has also made some smaller ones and I will bring them all to the Marin Humane Society soon.
Of course, I have also started a new project. I was getting tired of storing all these plastic bags from the grocery store so I'm going green! No more plastic bags. I'm attempting to crochet my own set of grocery bags out of 100% cotton yarn. I'm using Lily Sugar' n Cream Confectionary Colors in cinnamon, granola, and coconut. I found a free pattern that I think looks pretty cute. I can't find a link to picture of it, but I'll keep looking and get back to you guys. I want to make at least 5-6 to start off with and see how they work. I know it doesn't look like much now, but this is only one night's work.
