My mom rocks

rose quartz roving
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Omg, she came home from vacation with ROVING for me. Beautiful Merino roving in the rose quartz colorway. It's butter soft and just gorgeous. She also picked up sale yarn for me. Wowsers. I think I might have to turn the yarn (three colors of lambs pride) into a felted something for her.

kilronan3
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Okay, so forget about that tank top idea... The silky wool arrived today. Sorry about the bad photo, you can't even see the cool texture of the gauge swatch. I'll take some nicer progress pics over the weekend. I'm just so excited I had to take a starting picture tonight in my cave of a living room.

I forced myself to make a nice big 5" swatch, and my gauge is spot on, even the row gauge worked out on this swatch, which I remember it didn't on the smaller one I did with the leftover blue I had in stash.

Hopefully my excitement for this project will get me through knitting a tunic sweater on size 2's ;) I'm a pretty loose knitter though, so it's really not as daunting as it sounds to my coffee house knit crew.

When I finish this sweater, I'm so slathering on too much eye makeup and having a photoshoot on the moors :P

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I've dispatched the skull portion of the pirate sweater and am ready to knit it again. It's so much less traumatic when you give the knitting a time out. It also gives distance between me and all the little voices telling me that it's "close enough" and would be "fine after blocking" these voices are generally lying bastards.

I think I'm going to pick out a nice tank top project for festival knitting this weekend. I'm tempted to bring the malabrigo, but whatever shawl I settle on will probably not be good knitting with distractions, small nephew & booze. For the same reason I think I'll leave the pirate sweater home, I don't want to rip it twice!

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I'll take a better picture when it's dry :)