Heather of What’s Cluttering My Couch is having a contest. It’s different. And nice.
Celia of Unraveling is doing the Asthma Walk. If you contribute, you could win a pair of handknitted socks, tailored to your preferences!
Reading
Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher. The most recent Dresden Files novel. This series about Chicago PI and wizard Harry Dresden continues to be enjoyable, funny, and unpredictible. Definitely recommended.
Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton. The most recent Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel was ok. The bit about unpredictible being good re: the Dresden Files? The Anita Blake books are seeming awfully predictible these days. I ripped through the book, but I can’t say that I really enjoyed it.
The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman. Kristi recommended this book so highly a few weeks ago that I had to check it out. This is the first book in a series about LAPD Detective Peter Decker and Jewish widow Rina Lazarus and I already have the next book on my library list. For a more eloquent review, head on over and read Kristi’s.
China Trade by S.J. Rozan. MrsPao recommended this book to me and I’m very glad she did! Another enjoyable read that’s also the first book in a series about PI Lydia Chin, based out of NY’s Chinatown, and fellow PI Bill Smith.
I did a few things besides read this weekend. I knit – I’m now on the borders of my Moderne Log Cabin Baby Blanket! I did a tiny amount of catsitting. I touched up some dyed yarn. I rode my exercise bike and watched it rain outside. I walked around my neighborhood on Monday when the sun came out and took a few pictures. I played with the Chaos Kitty. I contemplated getting him a little sister… but maybe that should wait until after my epic vacation this fall. Anyway!
The sky was so dreary on Saturday and Sunday, I wasn’t tempted to get my camera out. But on Labor Day, I was. So here’s my Saturday Sunday Monday sky.
Last week I mentioned that I was saving the pictures of my dyed yarn and fun stuff from Deb until this week. Here’s the nifty keychain sock blocker and skein of Online Supersocke from Deb. Thanks, Deb! I hadn’t even seen the Supersocke before and that keychain is amazingly cute! Must knit minisock for minisock blocker…
I dyed more than one skein of yarn, but the self-striping hot pink and black not only defies photos, it’s also drying again – I had to redye the black because it was blotchy after the first time around. I think the skein below is my favorite so far of the skeins I’ve dyed, but I just couldn’t capture the colors. This is the best that I managed, but the colors are more intense in reality:
I also picked up some Silk Garden DK, inspired by Julia’s gorgeous socks.
I bet that skein is gorgeous in person!
Chris, your yarn is beautiful, and I love the idea of using Silk Garden to make socks. They are stunning.
Mini-sock will not knit itself! It takes about an hour!
Sounds like you had a relaxing Labor Day weekend. Your yarn is beautiful!
The sock yarn you dyed is GORGEOUS! At first when I saw it I thought it was a skein of Socks That Rock because of the intense colors!! Great job!
Wow you’ve been busy! Great dyed yarn – and Chaos has been supergood not to shred any of it lately ;o)
I wish our sky looked like that…it’s been cloudy and raining and COLD since Friday.
Ooo, I love the yarn you dyed! I haven’t read Danse Macabre yet, because I try to wait until it hits paperback, but you could be right about perdictibility, which is too bad. I love Noro and Silk Garden and now I NEED to find the Light version so I can make socks too! After I finish knitting for Socks for Sheep of course….
a little sister?
but mom,
i’m a happy only child,
i might be too old to learn to share.
Getthekittengetthekittengetthekittengetthekitten.
You too with the noro silk garden lite! Aieeeeeee. I promised myself I wouldn’t until next month or November…. Resolve….. Weakening……
thanks so much for all the book ideas. my stash was getting low – so today I’ll head off to the used book store. woo hoo
Love your one skein of hand dyed. and yeah… black is very very hard to hand dye. (so it gets avoided alot at this fiber house.)
The Silk Garden stuff is great! That’s going to make a beautiful pair of socks.
Ooo, I’m glad you enjoyed Ritual Bath! I haven’t gotten around to the next book, but I plan to continue with the series myself!
Love the new dye colors! Thanks for mentioning my contest.:)
beautiful yarn – paws off, chaos
Wow, a little sister for Chaos? Have you told him about this?? 🙂
Thanks for appreciating my lace, it really is kind of amazing to me that I knit that, even if it is a bit off-pattern!
Lovely dyed yarn. I’m itching to dye more…it was a blast to do.
Hey, Chaos, be nice to the yarn! Mommy might knit something for you.
But, but, but… Noro SG Lite has to be hand-washed! I don’t do hand-washed! Shucky-darns, no silky socks for me (or anyone on my knit-socks-for list).
The Rina/Peter series is one of my favorites; I’ve read ’em all. Just be sure to read them in sequence. The characters grow and develop and the situation changes accordingly. Enjoy!
Beautiful yarn!
And that’s exactly what our sky looked like yesterday. I remember thinking it odd that there were both cumulus and cirrus clouds at the same time.
You always dye the best yarns Chris! 🙂
You really are a reading machine. Where is the vacation to? Sounds really exciting.
Wow Chaos…I do that too! Quiver for the tear strip and Mommie gets SOO frustrated that I won’t play…but it’s fun to just watch what she does with it – make her WORK for my affection, ya know? (btw..that’s such a cool shot of you washing your ear..)
My Tony took Chaos’s tag/ challenge. Pop over and say hi!
BTW – I am in awe of your reading this summer. I used to think I read fast! Someday I’ll figure out how to read and knit at the same time. Right now all I can manage is one or two knit stitches while watching TV.
I read Ritual Bath ages ago. Hmm. Must look up the rest of her books.
Pretty yarn. Nice sky. Almost finished Moderne blankie! I think Chaos likes being an only child but a kitty sister for him? How cute would that be? If, you know, they got along.
Noro silk garden light eh? mmm I may have to look for some of that when I am in London at the end of the month 🙂 That skein you dyed is lovely!
Nice yarns, they are. Now, let’s see some of them become socks 🙂
Oh that’s pretty yarn! (what you dyed)
Chaos looks exactly like one of my kitties, Rico (actually it’s Uncle Rico).
I bet you’ll love your silk garden socks! I made 2 pairs this spring and absolutely love mine! And they are so beautiful knit up!
I love Faye Kellerman’s books! Have you read her husband Jonathan Kellerman’s books? The two of them are among my favorite authors.
I think Chaos would love to have a baby sister. Simon likes his!
A little sister for Chaos? That could be fun, but have you told Chaos yet?
The sock yarn you dyed came out really nice! I like it.
Hmm… Silk Garden socks.
Send your rain this way! We’ve had about half an inch now but we need MORE!
I am enjoying dyeing stuff blue and then overdyeing with magenta – pretty! The blue sucks the magenta into a lurid mauve/purple. Yum!
Do you have ticklish armpits, btw?
ohhhh your dyed yarn looks….. wait for it YUMMY!!!!! And silk garden socks, fab idea!!!!
I ordered a few of those sock blockers last week 🙂 they are too cute!
If you make four teeny tiny socks, maybe, just maybe Chaos will wear them.
That skein looks incredible!
Mmm Noro Silk Garden. I’m going to have to look for that when I’m in London next 🙂
I *must* get a mini sock blocker!!!!!!!!
Monday was a great day for a sky picture. Where was the pic taken?
Wow, you’re really becoming the Dyeing Diva!