Finished object

Finally I finished the Kimono Shawl! This is made with handspun two-ply yarn on #4 needles. The wool is from Twin Bridges, Montana. Now to decide what lucky person might become the owner of this...

Close up

The Kimono Shawl

New Place

Here are some photos of our new place. It is rather large for a studio and actually has this strange queen bed sized extra room that we are sleeping in....kind of like sleeping in a coffin. At least it has a window. Something I realized while moving is that I have 5 aprons. 4 of which have come from the Pagrabs family in one way or another. So note that we are all wearing aprons in these pictures. I am wearing one...it has a kingfisher on it...only you can't see it because I took the pictures.

New Living/Dining Room

New Kitchen

Moving Day

Well we are moving again. If you have the address 622 East Davis written down anywhere for my address please erase, cross out, delete. I'm not giving out the new address unless you are coming to visit and need to find my apartment building. Please use my P.O. Box instead.

Also Ryan's pictures from his NOlS course are up here. Check them out.

My first craft night

My knitting (and spinning) buddy Molly is in town so we hosted my first ever craft night at my house. So exciting! Molly and Genevieve both finished a hat (Genevieve's first!) and I made minimal progress on my shawl. Molly was working on a hat made from some of my handspun that I originally thought was super ugly and I loved the hat so much she gave it to me. I wish so much that I could post movies here because Genevieve shot a movie of Molly and I analyzing her finished hat which was just classic. Obsessive knitters talking about their work. We started off the evening with a soak at Norris Hot Springs. I can't quite imagine a more perfect evening or a better way to keep my mind off the fact that Ryan is coming home on Thursday!

New hats

Craft Night

And another thing....

Seals in La Jolla

5. Seals smell bad. Really bad.

Photos from not so sunny San Diego

Here is what I learned on my trip to San Diego:

1. Early June is obviously not the ideal time to visit San Diego. That is if you want to see sun.

2. Traveling with 5 other girls and one rental car is not a good idea.

3. Putting 4 girls (women?) in one hotel/motel room is not a good idea either.

and finally....

4. You can still get sunburned if the sun isn't out. If you could see the backs of my legs you would know. I don't know how many times I've heard this and never believed it until now.

On the upside. I got flowers delivered to me from Ryan yesterday. Awww. He's so sweet. He must have ordered them before he left. Only 8 more days!

Mission Beach on our only sunny day.

Wendy and me at Mission Beach

Mosaic Chairs in Del Mar for Kelley

Off to California

Well I just returned from a nice weekend at Red Rock Lakes NWR and I'm off again for a really long weekend in San Diego. I'll be back on Monday evening!