The return!

I haven’t been posting much because I haven’t been knitting much. I had forgotten how hot and wool-hostile the summers are, here, once they really get going. Also, my life totally exploded: in the past couple of months, there’s been a death and a serious illness in the family, I started a new job, and I moved unexpectedly. And then, yesterday, I wrote the LSAT. Suffice it to say, I’ve had my hands full.

But now the days are getting shorter, a chill has crept into the air, and I’m relatively settled in my new place. I, like many seasonal knitters the world over, find myself turning back to the needles and the wheel. Looking back at the last entry, it occurs that I actually have quite a bit of updating to do! First of all, that yarn I was working on when last I posed is finished:

This, remember, was that beautiful Panda roving from SweetGeorgia. I Navajo-plied the singles, which I love doing because it works with my limited bobbin supply. (And makes me feel clever, besides.) The final yarn is a fingering weight, and a good match to another bunch of Panda I spun up back in April:

(Colourway: Winter Camping. Dimes included in both pictures, for scale.)

In fact, the two yarns are such good matches, and the colours look so pretty together, that I’m going to have to come up with a project that uses them together.

Back in July, someone ripped off a bunch of people in the BPAL community. People were really bummed about it, but the BPALers bounced back with astonishing positivity: within days, Livejournal communities were awash with generous souls offering gifts to other community members. During this time, I was a BPAL newb with no perfumes to give away, but I was overwhelmed by all this generosity and wanted to take part.

Which is why I’m making this scarf for a BPALer:

Out of Posh Yarn Daisy 4-ply, an 80/20 superwash merino/bamboo, in their June sock club colourway.

The pattern is Anne Hanson’s Rivolo, which is a sweet, quick little knit. I’ve been knitting on it for about a day, and it’s just about halfway finished! (I’m going to do 40 repeats, rather than the presribed 30, because I love length in scarves.)

There’s progress on Queen Silvia, and some socks, but they’ll have to wait: it’s time to make lunch.