Something is better than nothing

There's not that much to report at the moment... just knitting going on.

Pellew's Pelisse is still growing. I've got eighty rows on the needles, and start the armhole decreases at ninety-four. When I hit that milestone the rest of the left front will go by quickly. Then there are the sleeves, two of them. Then I must decide on the edging. But that's still in the future.

The Trekking Sock is still growing. It's going to be one of those seven-inches-of-k2p2 ribbing-Dutch heel-stockinette foot-flat toe kind of socks. Watching the color changes is the best part of this knit. Each row is just a little different from the last, and instead of stripes there is just a lovely soft movement between colors.

The Yarn Harlot calls her most often used sock pattern her "plain vanilla sock recipe." I need to come up with names of my own for my two most-used patterns...

The Wooly Hat has been cast on three times, and is now the office knit (which means I tote it back and forth but never get a chance to work on it). It will be a k2p2 ribbed watch-cap type of hat when I can get it to work for me. I'm using my lone ball of Turnberry Tweed, in a dark rust color. It's a crispy yarn to work with, and not very stretchy even in a rib pattern. Maybe this isn't the yarn to do one of these hats, but I'll find out later in the project. If not, I won't count it as a waste since I will have learned much by the effort.

It's easy to say that now.

My dear great-aunt M-- and my cousin D-- are coming to visit for a few days next week. We've been talking about this trip for over a year now and I can't wait to see them. It's meant getting a bed for the spare room (planned anyway) and much airing of sheets and planning of picnics. M-- is one of the most delightful people on the planet, a woman of education with a quick mind and a clever tongue. I always feel smarter when I spend time with her, which isn't often enough. D-- is her son and another smart cookie. He spent years in some kind of think tank before becoming an engineer. Neither of them has ever been Way Out West so it will be fun to show them how it's done out here.