In which boredom ensues

So life is pretty boring right now. Spring break at work - which means longer hours with less to do to fill them. Currently I'm re-entering all of the physicals into the computer, because somehow, even though it wasn't supposed to, the original excel file was erased when the computer got updated with new Clinic stuff. Grr.

Today should be better though, baseball scrimmage is scheduled to be played on the football field, and it's sunny out. Chilly, but sunny. And I've got the knitting, as always.
The finished test knit fingerless mitt. The pattern is called Talinay, and it's not yet released, but when it is, the proceeds are supposed to go to the Chilean Relief effort. I'll eventually get around to doing the other one.

I'm finally getting somewhere with the Laminaria shawl. I felt like I was stuck on the blossom chart forever.
Probably didn't help that I took a week off to finish all the green stuff. Or that I'm not particularly fond of some of the stitches in the blossom chart. But one chart left and it's done, which means that I should totally meet my deadline of this weekend so that it's blocked and dry in time to enter at KotS.
Close up, in case you're interested in that kind of thing. Blocking will do amazing things to this shawl.

And then on Friday night, I had the urge to start a new sock. So I did.
The Atlantis pattern from The Enchanted Sole, with Sanguine Gryphon's Eidos yarn (colorway Cleidophon). And by Sunday night, that's how far I was. Crazy fast.
I was a bit worried that I would run out of yarn for the second sock, since it's a bit longer in the leg than I normally do. But after a quick weigh in on Meagan's scale, it's all good, and I'll do the ribbing soon and move onto the second one. Yippee.
Yeah, if that yarn looks familiar, it's because this is not the first attempt to make it into a sock. A while back I attempted the Vilai pattern out of it and it didn't work. This is much better.

Alright, off to get ready for work. Hopefully I'll have something less boring to report next time.

No name post

I'm not feeling clever enough for a title for this post today. We'll see where this goes, it might end up a bit random. I blame Daylight Savings Time.

Knitting. We'll start there. Here's the state of the shawl I started last week, Laminaria. I haven't touched it since last Wednesday.
Isn't it pretty? Why haven't I been knitting on the pretty? Because I'm goofy. I volunteered to test knit a pattern over on Ravelry. A fingerless mitten pattern, and one has to be done by this Thursday.
Because I love deadline knitting. Actually, it wouldn't be so bad, except that there's another deadline. Wednesday. St. Patrick's Day. And I have stuff to get done for then too.
Like a little Irish dancer dolly for Kaylee. The photo was taken yesterday, she now has an arm and a dress. The orangey-red is for her hair, wait til you see how that turns out. This is the pattern I'm using. It's going well, except that the appendages are a bit tricky to work.

Saturday was Spin-In day at knitting pal Paula's house. So much fun. I forgot to take my camera with me, so no photos of all the fun. I'm such a bad blogger. But I got a whole bunch of spinning done.
And none of it on my wheel. What?! I know crazy. But I really wanted to work on something really super pretty, and my limited experience with batts (the way that the fiber is prepared/presented) meant that I pulled out the spindles. That's a pic of the spun fiber against the second batt, so I'm halfway done. I'm definitely going to ply on the wheel (thank goodness!).
It's a lot thinner than I had expected it to be, but the fiber dictates, don't fight it. So I need to wind off the singles and get going on that second batt. Woohoo. Note the pretty sparkles. This fiber was bought more than a year ago, from an amazing Etsy seller, ArtemisArtemis, and the spindles are both from the spindle and fiber club from Zebisis Designs, also on Etsy. Have I mentioned how much I adore Etsy?

Yesterday, the fam came out for dinner and a visit. Here's photographic evidence of how big the kiddos are getting, note that Aubrey is starting to show curls - poor thing.