I haven’t blogged for the past few days, but I have not been idle. Discriminating viewers will notice that I have changed my blog’s template, and I am still in the midst of fiddling with colors. M, alpha geek that he is, gets so excited when I play around in CSS and HTML\/XHTML, that I have caught his enthusiasm. In addition, he found the Mac app dragonfly<\/a> for me at the Apple site<\/a>. It is a web color chooser and gives the hexadecimal code for each color, and it allows you to make a palette of four colors. Plus it has a toggle drawer which shows the color with text over them, where you can play with text colors. It’s a little addictive.<\/p>\n

But I have been knitting. The left front of my lilac La Gran cardigan is done and the first sleeve (I decided to knit a sleeve before the right front to break up the sleeve making process) is coming along:<\/p>\n

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Sock progress progresses, but not in an interesting to photograph manner; just around and around heading for toes.<\/p>\n

Since the La Gran carigan is going well, I wanted to get started on the diamond fantasy shawl in Fleece Artist Merino Ruby. Alas, I had not the appropriate needles. Therefore, I braved a Saturday shopping expedition with M. I am NOT<\/b> a shopper. M usually has quite a list of errands, and so taking me along can be problematic. For you see, when I am done shopping, whether I have even finished my<\/i> list, much less anyone else’s list, I AM DONE SHOPPING.<\/i> Trying to bribe me with promises of ice cream often fails. Luckily for M, I will usually sit in the truck playing solitaire on my PDA or knitting a sock. Shopping often gives me a headache. I am not a good consumer. Madison Avenue ad execs find me disturbing. But I did OK today, and M was very patient at the LYS (local yarn store, for my readers who aren’t bloggers).<\/p>\n

My favorite LYS is Rumpelstiltskin<\/a> in Sacramento. The store is cozy and FULL of all sorts of wonderful yarn and possible project ideas. Plus the staff are kind and helpful if I want help. Otherwise, they have no problem letting customers browse and oooh and ah. I went in for needles, but I found some beauties that also had to come home with me:
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The dark blue Misti Alpaca is for some fingerless gloves. It was unbelievably soft, and a pattern for the handwarmers came free with the yarn. It’s a bulky weight so the gloves are only 27 stitches in the round in a twisted cable rib. <\/p>\n

The second is Trekking XXL for socks. I was so glad to learn at Romancing the Yarn<\/a> that sock yarn does not add to one’s stash. That was a real relief! I like how the little bit of lavender in the yarn looks near the bit of my lilac sweater that’s hanging out of my basket. A serendipitous color find. <\/p>\n

Third is some mohair for a scarf that was just too pretty to pass up. But my favorite find was this:
<\/a> <\/a> It’s so pretty it deserves two pictures. It’s a thick and thin wool from Italy, and the luster is fabulous. I may try a bias, thin scarf; we’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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