Can you believe it? More mail!!!
The ever wonderful Jill strikes again!! DH now refers to Jill as my pusher, ROTFL!!

Yarn, yarn, more yarn!!!! Lots of US stuff that I can’t get here for me to try. I don’t think I’ll lack for a project anytime soon 🙂 The only thing I seem to lack is places to hide it all!
I finished Em’s cardigan. She’s not a Show Pony, is she?

That’s it, according to the pattern. I’m unhappy with the neckline though, so I’m going to pick up some stitches and do a garter stitch neckband.
If I have left an illegible comment on your blog, or written you an email that needed deciphering, I apologise! I let my nail lady talk me into letting my nails grow longer, and it’s not working!!

It’s only my typing it’s affecting. Possibly because I try not to do anything else! 😉

Was it only yesterday that I mentioned that my stash is overwhelming me? Funny that, because today was a Mail Day!! And what a mail day – if I keep this up, the Post Office will make me hire my own mail carrier 😉

Look at that! It’s like Christmas!
First off was the Bucket Hat contest prize from the lovely and generous Becky 🙂
Phil Ruban in Cassis(stunning!), French candy, postcards and a cute beading set for Em.

More Elann goodies! As you can see, I caved on Faina’s scarf. 🙂 The green Micro Big Shine is for Bonne Marie‘s new Mondo Cable top. I’m not quite sure which summer I’ll make it for though 😉

And the Jo Sharp yarn is a discontinued shade (Satin) of her 8ply DK wool that I scored on eBay. For a sweater for me.
Last of all, I promised Em that I’d post this picture for Jill. It’s an origami penguin that she made fromt he little origami kit that Jill sent her 🙂

Am I the only one who gets a little overwhelmed when they look at their stash? I’m up to the sleeves on Em’s cardi, and frankly I’m feeling more than a little overwhelmed.
All I want to do is knit. However, I still have 42 costumes for the dance concert unstarted. Emily has a competition starting in 2 weeks. For this she needs her new costume which is a pretty much fully sequinned leotard. I’ve done less than half, and I’ve been working on it since April. Admittedly, I haven’t been working very hard on it. Now the deadline is looming and I still can’t motivate myself to work on it.
I think I have too many things to choose from to do. And I want to do them all. Now. Except the things that need to be done, LOL!
Em has her annual ballet exam tomorrow. She’s a bit jangly today. And she has jazz and tap exams later in the week. Much as I reassure her that she’ll be fine, she always does fine, she’s reaching an age where her results matter to her. When they are littler, they don’t really care how they go. As they get older, the competitiveness kicks in. I have an hour and a half wait while she dances. I guess I’ll take the sequins. But I’d rather take the knitting!

I’m making huge progress on the Katia cardi for Em. Funny how 10sts/inch will do that 😉 I’ve done the back, and have done around 3″ of the front.
I haven’t knitted with a tape yarn before, and I’m finding it a little frustrating. It keeps twisting up and having to be untwisted. At first I was being careful and making sure the yarn was staying flat and even around the needle, unraveling the twists every row. But, being the torally impatient person that I am, I said “To hell with that!” and I’m now just knitting normally with it. It doesn’t seem to look an awful lot different, and the gauge is still the same.
It’s just my sanity that’s healthier 🙂

When you’re having a crappy day, everyone needs a friend like Jill.
Whilst I was whining about my crappy day yesterday, I failed to mention that the high point of the day was going to the Post Office in the morning to pick up a big box of yarn from Jill!
And then I got to the Post Office this morning and there was a fat envelope from Jill!
The perfect medicine! 🙂
She sent yarn, yarn, and more yarn yesterday, and today there were magazines (yay!), needles for that silly Katia cardigan (12mm straights and a 10mm bamboo circular), a Suss poncho kit and a little Origami kit for Em.
So I got to spend the morning drinking coffee, reading knitting magazines and swatching the Katia. And ignoring the housework. I even got pretty close to gauge on the Katia with the 10mm bamboo circs. Note that I didn’t get gauge, but seriously, you all would have been surprised if I did, wouldn’t you? Hell, *I* would be!!
Why didn’t I spend the morning finishing the Cloverleafs?
Because I finished them last night!

And with the help of my blogfriends and the tips and pointers, I even worked out the Kitchener stitch for the toe. YAY!!!!