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I give you the consequences of Friday night knitting, multiple (strong) pomegranate martinis, and Icarus:

Oh, that was just the beginning of my froggy saturday morning.  I ended up ripping out an inch and a half  of Icarus.  It’s really a rather mindless pattern, but apparently still required too much attention for my inebriated mind Friday night.  And it’s funny… saturday morning frogging has become a ritual for me because every week I tell myself that the WIP I bring isn’t that involved.  I try to keep my projects really simple due to the large quantities of alcohol that always accompany Friday nights.  I really just need to stick to stockinette socks at Friday night knitting.  They’re really the only things that I don’t screw up.  But I guess that saturday morning frogging is a small price to pay for the awesome time that I always have with my BFFs.

It’s been a productive week for me.  I’ve made progress on Icarus (despite my Friday setback).  I have also finished my feather and fan scarf (FINALLY)!

It only took me 3 months…  I’m ridiculously pleased with how well the colorway of the yarn worked out with the feather and fan stitch pattern.  I thought it might be too much, but it’s really not.  It’s very watercolorish.  It could use a light blocking really… but only for the ends, as the scallops have kind of curled up.  But that’s probably got more to do with my ridiculously poor casting on and casting off skills than anything else.  So, I doubt the blocking would completely correct the problem.  But overall, I’m pleased.  

I also finally finished spinning up the remainder of the seawool in to lovely delicate lace singles.

I’m definitely thinking smoke ring or some other kind of delicate lace cowl.  There’s about 492 yards here, so that should be more than enough.  I’ve really been digging the spindling lately.  I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it.  In fact, I sat down at the wheel this morning to work on my cormo and could only do it for about 15 minutes before I was bored.  I just really missed the spindle.  Yesterday I ordered a new spindle from Butterfly Girl Designs and I cannot wait for it to get here!  I also ordered a yummy batt from her too that I can’t wait to see.  I already have plans for the yarn once it’s spun…  Oh, and I’m thinking I should get my first Spunky Eclectic fiber club shipment sometime this week.  Yay!  But in the meantime, I think that I am going to pull out the merino/silk/angora roving that has been hanging out in the stash to work on my spindle.  I guess that the cormo is going to have to hang out just a bit longer.