knitting - might bore you until the cheese incident at the end.

i decided to go to a new lys today.

so up at colfax and pierce is showers of flowers. it is HUGE, with more yarn than you can shake a stick (or a bryspun needle) at. and i went with the purpose of getting some smaller dpns because, in case i don't have millions of schoolwork during the quarter, i want to start seeing if i can do trickier things like mittens and kitchener stitches (they both have me daunted because of kitchener stitches being difficult and tricky). and i found some worsted weight plymouth encore yarn that i'll make some mittens with (color 389), toyed with trying bryspun needles (they didn't have the right size though so i went with bamboo), and saw some goregeous rowan polar wool/alpaca blend that i really needed to buy. truly, i'm waiting for the rest of the yarn i need for my sister's poncho to come in, so i decided to branch out into cables as well...

and now i'm also knitting michelle a scarf in the polar smirk, with cables... i don't have a pattern, and it's going to get a tad tiring visually (it's got a 6 st border, 6p, 4 st cable, 6p, 6 st cable 6 p, 4 st cable, 6p, and back to the border) but it's really soft, i finally sat down and figured out the single needle, double cast on - never really thought about it, but tired of the floppy end, i had to see if there was a better way, and there was. so far, i've done about 10" of the scarf, it's looking pretty good (except for the forecasting of the boringness of it) but my sister will love the color and the texture, and it is her birthday on wednesday (unlikely to be finished and shipped to california by then, however).

so that is my story of today - i didn't read the reading for my thursday class i was scheduled to to, but whatever. i got home and i made some capellini with shrimp and artichoke hearts in white wine, and a touch of red peppers for pizzazz... and decided to throw some parmesan on top, as well. not the good kind, but the crap kind in the shaky shaky can. it all was wonderful until the dog ran into me with barking, and happened to look up and get an eyeful of cheese. did he mind? yes, he did. because he had cheese in his eye? no. because he had cheese in his eye that he couldn't put on the INSIDE part of his face.

he's so weird.