The sun came out today for the first time in about a week. Fingers crossed that the forecast holds for tomorrow, because I'd really like to block the beaded lace shawl! Anyway, sunshine (or what passes for it in Ithaca) allowed me to photograph nearly 1100 yards of Storm Clouds yarn. I plied it off yesterday and washed it, but it's been too cold and humid for the skeins to dry completely. They're hanging outside right now in hopes of evaporating the last of the moisture.
I'm postponing the wimple-into-shawl for a while. The unscoured merino/cashmere yarn is just no fun to knit with (it feels way too much like cotton!), so I need to skein and wash it first. In the meantime, I'm going to pull out the remaining laceweight alpaca/merino/tussah skeins for a beaded wimple. Judging by my web hits in the last week, wimples are apparently hot items, which makes me glad. They offer many design possibilities in terms of both stitch patterns and yarns, and they're also practical and comfortable.
And just to enoy pissing off both Cubs and Red Sox fans, go Cardinals!
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