Bring On Fall

Happy September! I can't believe that August is already over and the unofficial start of fall is already here. I'm just back from dropping Rainbow off at school for her first day of middle school(!), and things are starting to feel decidedly autumnal. And I am here for it, let me tell you. I love the longer days of summer but long for the cooler temperatures of fall.

Once I used to get excited about the start of the new school year because it meant all those new school supplies. I still get excited about the supplies, but this year I'm hoping to start off the new year with a new sweater. I'm almost there -- last night I finished the first sleeve (except for weaving in ends) on my Torbellino:

Once I do a little weaving in of ends, I will pick up for sleeve number two. I was able to knit the first sleeve while reading, so I'm hopeful I can do the same with the second and have it finished up at about the same time I'm finishing my bingo card.

There is good news on that front -- I finished Little Dorrit last night! I really enjoyed it, except for perhaps how long it took to read, but that's really my own fault for picking such a tome. Now my focus moves to finishing up Stamped from the Beginnning; I have 188 pages left, so I'll need to read about 26 pages a day to finish it by the end of Labor Day and meet my deadline. And of course I have to read another book in the next week as well if I want to achieve my second cover-all. Please keep your fingers crossed that it's a slow work week so I can focus on reading!

I have started another project this past week, but unfortunately it's a design piece for a publication that I can't share, so instead let me share a little yarn pr0n with you:

I think we all know that I don't need any more yarn, but Lisa had a big shop update a couple of weeks ago and I had a coupon code, so I took advantage. The two skeins on the left are from her new Rain Clouds and Tie-Dye collection. On the far left is is the cool tie-dye variegated (there's a warm variegated version as well) on Lisa's newest base, a 90% superwash merino/10% nylon slub fingering weight. I plan to hold it together with the mohair/silk laceweight next to it. The other two skeins are both Lisa's Traveler sport weight base that came from her "dyer's secret stash." She occasionally offers up skeins that aren't quite up to her high standards for some reason -- they're a little short in yardage, they have a knot, they have a dye mistake, etc. These two were colorway prototypes that didn't quite make the cut, but I like them just fine. I think the more colorful of the two is going to become socks for my sister-in-law, whose foot measurements I finally got recently. The other skein I think I might need to keep for me.

That's all I've got for today -- I have to get back to my reading! Hope you're all having a great start to the month!