Now that Erik is heading to the pool at 6:00 AM every morning, I have extra time to read and catch up on what’s on my blog rolls. I recently downloaded the new Office 2007 Beta and it captures updated RSS feed in Outlook. I find that very handy because I can read my email and updated blogs at the same time. While catching up I found an article that pointed me to a site that parses HTML in any site entered using a Java applet. What you see blooms before your eyes and makes quite a pretty display. This is what my site looks like.
I have been diligently knitting the back of the Debbie Bliss Split Cable Top and hope to have that piece completed by the end of the weekend. My fingers are itching to knit the front and watch the cable materialize. The cotton silk aran is very nice to knit with. One skein knits up very quickly and it seems as though I am blowing through the package of yarn too quickly. The back is all moss stitch and features a defined waist through shaping.
My other project is the Jaywalker sock. I am using the Woolarina yarn that I purchased a few weeks ago. I started the sock over the Memorial Day weekend campout at Disney. For more reasons than I care to recall, the poor sock was started and frogged a total of 6 times. I think that I may finally have the stitch count/needle combination right and am on my way to starting the heel flap. Thanks to Cara from January One for pointing me to the KAL archives and a host of Jaywalker tips. I hope to read through the lengthy instructions that make up the new 6Sox KAL June/July pair this weekend. I am still waiting for hand painted yarn that I ordered mid May from a Furry Yarns in Maine. By my calendar, the package should have arrived long before now.
