Birthday!

This week was my birthday, and while I’m scarily close to being 30, I enjoyed my day very much. Beth surprised me with an ice cream cake, we cracked upon the bag of American Doritos (yes, there IS a difference), and enjoyed watching Frozen together. I’m so thankful for these lovely ladies who made me feel so loved and appreciated.

This Monday I finished the sixth chart on my scarf—I’m working on the barrels right now. The Lonely Mountain is in sight! Here are charts 5 and 6; I’ve not downloaded my pictures for awhile.

I’m really debating right now whether or not to add the crochet boarder around the scarf. There is one part of me that quails at the thought of that after all this knitting, and there is another part of me that wonders how hard it will be to make that look nice. I think the scarf is about as wide as I want it right now, so I might just leave it off. The main advantage as far as I can tell is that it would cover those places at the beginning where I didn’t always wrap my yarn very well. Oh well, there are a few more charts worth of knitting for me to ponder through…

I’m hankering to start a new knitting project right now, but I’m not sure what. I have a sock that is just about ready to be cast off, and I finished my red spiral scarf made with the Mountain Color mill ends I bought in Montana last summer.

I’m still planning out my gift knitting for Christmas and a few birthdays, and I came across another scarf pattern that I want to try out. If only teaching didn’t interfere with all my knitting! The trick is to find something that a) I want to knit and b) calls for yarn I have in the stash. Yes, I have a rather, er, good sized stash, but sometimes there just isn’t anything that will work for what I have in mind. I think I’m going to do a left-overs sort of project to clear out some space in my sock yarn shoe organizer…

Parting shot: I have some pretty crazy animals; here is Java in a bag,

and Hazel napping in a culvert!