Special delivery.

A very special package arrived at my house the other day.

 

Can you guess what was inside?

 

 

It was quite a surprise!

 

I received a special package from A and her pup Kaiser! A few weeks ago, she had a destash/contest, and I was the winner! So I now have some new-to-me wool and some other goodies. Thanks, A (and Kaiser!) I already have some sooper-seekrit plans for some of the wool. Also, that teal yarn? I think it might be Classic Elite Montera. I have a pair of mittens and a hat made out of it. I'll have to dig them out and make a comparison.

I stayed up late last night to finish the bind-off on my Kool-Aid Shawl of Doom. I ran 100% OUT OF YARN when I was only 9 stitches from the end. NINE STITCHES, PEOPLE. So I had to use the no-yarn bind off on the last 9 stitches, and let me tell you, I'm still pretty pissed about that. The last 9 stitches will now be much less flexible when I go to block the shawl, which probably won't be until the weekend because 1. I am still quite upset with the shawl and 2. I have to use my bed because I don't want any excess dye (read: Kool-Aid) to bleed onto my carpet (apartment complexes tend to frown upon that sort of thing.) There are currently no pictures of the shawl because it is still in a heap, where I threw it in a fit of pique after I finished the bind off.

It seems like nothing I knit lately is going right. I have started more socks in the last week than I really care to admit, and have frogged them all. I made it several pattern repeats into Nagini just tonight, and, all drama aside, I can't make up my mind if I really like it or not. Also, I'm not really wild about the SMOOSHY! on US 1 DPNs, at a gauge of 9.5 sts/inch. I think on a US 1.5, I get a good fabric at 8.5-9 sts/inch. So maybe I'll just make up my own pattern with a snakeskin cable. So there. Up yours, zombies!

In other news, my washer here has a "soak" setting, so I am slowly but surely washing all my sweaters before I pack them away for the summer. Which will hopefully be long and drawn out and at least 90 degrees every day, and last until, oh, let's say January.