Here comes the sun!

What a glorious weekend in my neck of Vermit! Sure, it was cold but the sun was promising spring right around the corner. I even saw some muskrats making forays out into the open. Izzy has been basking in the new window, and the cluster flies have been emerging (I know...ewww..but hey, spring's coming!)

To celebrate, I crafted a Dumpling Bag from Interweave Knits Fall 2008. Since I am using glass rings, I opted for just one instead of the two the pattern calls for - I didn't want to take the chance on breakage. The knot can be easily undone if I want to open the bag all the way. I do have to felt it some more: when I used the bag earlier this week, my dpns poked through a bit.

A current WIP is my version of the Danish tieback shawl. I'm using Plymouth Encore in several different colors. KYarns is hosting a charity knit project using Encore, so all my leftover bits will not go to waste.

And for my travel project, I started a 3rd pair of socks for the Breast Cancer Center in Plymouth's Happy Feet. This pic doesn't do the red justice: it's very rich with lots of variations. In other news, the window is drywalled and the other (old exterior) window has been pulled out. So on the CatMan's side of the bed, we are looking at a wall of green trash bags stretched over the hole leading into the new space. The first night with this new arrangement, we realized the cats had emerged from their hiding places (the workmen don't believe we really have 6 cats - they've only seen 2) , pried a corner of the plastic back, and had gone exploring in the new space. Not wanting to lose a cat down between the walls or into a nook that hadn't been closed up yet, we took it upon ourselves to do a little preventive construction much to the disappointment of the intrepid cat explorers. Hopefully, their disappointment will be short-lived and we'll be able to use the space by the end of this month!