The Game Plan

Tomorrow is the annual Pittsburgh Knit & Crochet Festival. I am taking the beginning spinning class in the afternoon, so I am going to try to go early to do some browsing, and perhaps a little shopping, in the vendors' area. I am going to do my best to leave without too many new acquisitions because 1) I am trying to knit down the stash, as it has started to overgrow my knitting area; 2) we are putting our house on the market (eek!) in about two weeks and we have to do some serious decluttering; and 3) I am trying to save money for the new house (which we still have yet to find). I am going to be restricting myself to items that I cannot get at an LYS and perhaps a pattern or two. I'll be sure to show you just how well I do at keeping to this plan (or not) later in the weekend.

On a completely unrelated note, I had a very nice surprise waiting for me when I got home from work yesterday. You may remember these socks that I knit for a sock swap recently. As it turns out, my downstream swap pal was going through a bit of a rough time when my package arrived at her door, and she was so thankful for that little bit of happiness that she sent me a package of goodies in return -- some hand cream, a pair of bamboo needles, a novel called (appropriately enough) Knitting, and some other trinkets. The real star, however, was this:

Cherry Tree Hill Supersock DK in a colorway called Monet. Doesn't this just scream spring? I may need to knit this up right away to fend off the winter blues.

Not much exciting in my knitting world. I started a sleeve to go along with The Big Gray Tube (TM) at knit night on Wednesday and promptly messed up the increases -- er, I mean, integrated a design feature into the increases. I should have a finished pair of socks to show you before the weekend is out, and then I must cast on for the next baby sweater. The Pea Pod cardigan is to be delivered on Sunday!