(mis)adventures of spindlerose

Cats steal yarn

Back in March, I fell off the no stash bandwagon and came home from the Knit Happens birthday sale with enough Damask to knit Tulip from Rowan 41. I knit a big swatch because it took 3 tries for me to get gauge. I knit the back in 9 days. Sometime between March 18 and my mid-April trip to California, 2 balls of the yarn disappeared. I have looked everywhere in the stash closet and in the rest of the house with no luck. Tomorrow, I'll be calling every Rowan stockist I can think of in search of more in the same dye lot. I am certain that as soon as I find some and it arrives, the cats will return the balls they stole.

Out Playing

Rosemary can't come to the blog right now. She and D are on a much needed* vacation. This is the only vacation photo you will see, because the camera battery charger is in her bedroom in Virginia and not in Florida.

Come back next week for Maryland Sheep and Wool photos and the regular knitting and spinning blather.

*My birthday was Thursday. We enjoyed our usual first day at WDW activities: sleep in; eat lunch at The Plaza in the Magic Kingdom; ride Pirates of the Caribbean (for D) and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad; and (because it was my birthday) enjoy late afternoon sundaes at The Plaza. For a special birthday treat, we ended the day with La Nouba and a very lovely dinner.

Another Wednesday on the road

So I've got nothing except some randomness. Right now, I'm stuck in Huntsville, Alabama, thanks to weather south of Washington, DC.

1. Small airports have much better WiFi than big ones. Huntsville's WiFi is free, National does not have WiFi at all, and Atlanta, Boston, and San Jose all charge to connect. Why is that, I wonder?

2. My new black sandals are super comfy, even after a full day standing at a trade show. I'm not that sure how they'll feel after 3 days sanding on concrete, but one day is manageable.

3. New sandals? you ask. I took advantage of a free day in San Francisco a last weekend to shoe shop at Nordstrom. None of the DC area stores carry my size, but the big San Francisco one does. I bought a black pair and a brown pair to round out my spring and summer shoe wardrobe.

4. Business travel is great for sock knitting production. Last week was a three sock week. I completely knit two socks and knit the cuff of a third during my airplane, hotel, and meeting time last week.

5. Business travel is not so great for knit photography. Hotel rooms have crummy light for good pictures. And all my daylight time when I could try for natural light outside or inside pictures is usually taken up with work.

6. Like others, I am looking forward to spending a couple of days with the sheeps and wools this weekend. My checkbook and credit cards are staying home, though. I have revised my Knit from Stash in 2007 rules to allow no free pass during May. I am trying to reduce the stash to a point that it will squeeze into one closet to make our ongoing house hunt easier.

That's enough randomness from me for today. Time to plug into the iPod, tune it to knitting podcasts, and pull out a second sock.