Although fall is still theoretically a few weeks away, trees are already starting to change here, and the temperatures struggled to get up to 60 some days during a recent rainy stage. It has definitely been a cool summer on the whole--which suits me, but not my tomatoes and green peppers and eggplants! Fortunately, beans and summer squashes, after a slow start, are not at all phazed by cool weather.
I finally finished the lace circular shawl, crawling my way round the edging--garter stitch with 16 rows, repeated about 75 times. I need to block it and fix a little mistake near the center--looks like a dropped stitch but isn't, can't quite figure it out yet. I started a pi-are-square shawl in a subtle off-white with flowing bits of bright colors yarn from Debbie McDermott. Just garter stitch this time :) I keep thinking a sweater for myself would be awfully nice, but haven't gotten a plan clear in my head yet. I transferred the rest of our Shetland roving to smaller, sturdier boxes, and realized I had quite a bit more than I thought. LOTS for a sweater! I really prefer a 3-ply yarn, but this roving doesn't easily spin finer than maybe 30 wpi, so a 3-ply would be too heavy, I want more like a sport weight yarn for my sweater. So 2-ply it is. And I'm going to do some dyeing today for sock roving. We finally have some sunshine again, but it's not too warm for dyeing on the stove. Other than that, haven't had much time for fiber this summer. Now that it feels so much like fall, though, and the weeds are somewhat conquered in the garden, I expect the fiber will flow through my fingers again :) Holly To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
