Let me apologize to anyone who has emailed me or commented here lately. I worked 21 hours last week, which as I have said before, is a lot for someone who doesn’t have a job. Plus, I do it in bits and pieces throughout the day, at home, which is tough. And due to that, my inbox has been totally flooded. The work is great for the extra income, and for the time I get to spend with former coworkers/good friends, even though the time we spend together is within the confines of emails and instant messages. But it has thrown my usually organized household into disarray. To put it mildly. However, things are still happening, like my mom’s recent visit, which was great, and I have even done some knitting now and then. I had the weekend off from working, so while I sat in the driveway watching D & A play, I finished up my Fetchings. And then I started and finished a pair for AJ.

Here are mine:

Fetching, free pattern from Knitty.com
Reynolds Odyssey, a little more than one ball,
and size 6 Denise Interchangeables, magically looped

I love this yarn. It’s so soft, and the way the colors marl and stripe so subtly, it reminds me of Trekking. On steroids. It would make a wonderful sweater, but at $10 a ball, it’s not going to become a sweater of mine anytime soon. The wristwarmers, however, are an affordable luxury.

Beth suggested that I use the leftovers to make AJ a wee pair of Fetchings, and I thought that was a super idea. They flew off the needles…they were great fun. (Ravelry notes on the modifications I made can be found here.) And she adores them. She wore them to church today and they said she never took them off!

I don’t love the way the picot edge curls on hers, but it doesn’t seem to do that on the full-size pair.  Or, it doesn’t do it as badly.

Speaking of Beth, I got to meet up with her this afternoon. We live about 2.5 hours away from each other, so there was probably little chance of us ever getting together. But we talk on the phone a good bit and have a lot in common, and when she said she was driving past this area on a trip, I was thrilled to get to meet her. (We had a good laugh when we first started planning this, because she and I are both self-professed hermits with a good healthy fear-bordering-on-paranoia of strangers. Or maybe the paranoia part is just me. And yet, there we were, planning to meet a person we met on the internet. We said we should just meet in a dark alley to make the scene complete.)

However, instead of the dark alley, we chose an outlet mall near me. It was perfect, because there’s a playground (for D & A) and lots of shopping (for her husband and daughter, because you know they’d get bored with the knitting talk pretty quickly). Plus it wouldn’t take them far off of the interstate. Anyway, we met and spent an hour or so chatting and showing each other our current WIPs and taking turns looking for DJ, who is very fast and can easily disappear behind playground equipment in a flash. It was fun, and she came bearing gifts, some flower seeds and some Halloweenish treats for the kids. And I got to see her Maine Morning wristwarmers, which she’s knitting with some of Rachel’s handspun.  We have to do it again, Beth. (Maybe when we finish Ariann! Can anyone say Joint FO Photo Shoot?)

Now I’m off to bed.