Father's Day Tie: Not Gonna Happen

Envious BeechWood

I have cast on, frogged, lather, rinse and repeat too many times.  This thing will not be finished on time.  So, to console myself, I cast on BeechWood, by Ilga Leja.  Sadly, the pattern is no longer on her site.  I am so glad that I am a total data packrat.  I'm a little more than halfway through and think I may have found my new favorite thing to knit.  Me and straight knitting? Not so much.  In the round? I rock!   So, cowls are my friend: fast and super flexible for patterns.  I have all that Claudia Hand Paints I ordered for ties that I'm gonna finish frogging and make a few cowls of my own devising.  I have some stitch ideas, for sure.  I think I'll peruse my stitch dictionaries and see what I can come up with.  I'm so glad I ordered a bunch of 24" circulars - yay! I now have US 4-8 (or will when my 6 & 7 come in).  I really need to take some time this coming weekend and inventory my schtuff...

In the mean time, I'm super excited: a nice lady on Ravelry sold me two skeins of some Shibui Sock in Earth for $16!  I need more yarn like I need a hole in my head, but ... well, it was so pretttttty!  I find it funny that I'm addicted to sock yarn but don't actually knit socks.  Although, this Square Cake that is languishing on the needles was started in the round in two circulars and WOW!!! Now THAT is a technique I am so glad I forced myself to learn.  If I can just learn two socks at the same time on two circulars....