La-la-la-la life goes on.

I remember what I forgot in my last post - Bread and Honey update. You'll remember that in this post I talked about the possibility of setting up my own booth in the island craft fair and selling fandom handknits.

Well, I'm glad I didn't. It was possibly the hottest day we'd had yet that year, and the only person selling handknits was doing so for charity. Piles of crunchy acrylic baby clothes and mittens in hideous colours. I don't think I would have done very well at all, and I'd be sitting on a pile of useless hats and scarves and more Red Heart than you can shake a straight at.

Also in that post, I mentioned landing a summer job. Well, the summer job has been unlanded. Resulting in more knitting time but less money for yarn. Time to go stash diving! The job, howver, did result in a deal on the Knitting Bag of Awesome previously mentioned. Some pictures of the new pretty:



The bag at rest. Note how empty and slack it looks, when in fact it is already holding . . .



I'm sorry Queen, I know how you feel about your wheels, but I'm in love with my handbag. That bright green currently on the needles in the bag is my Girl's Best Friend scarf, based on the lacy diamonds scarf pattern from Oddball Knitting. I have about two and a bit feet done, 35% of the ball according to my kitchen scale. So far, I like it, but I hope it will even out with some blocking.



I put down the baby Yoda for a bit to be selfish, but I picked it up for my commute to school. With a solid two hours of time either on transit or waiting for transit, I can usually get a lot done - yesterday I finished one and a half sleeves. Once I finish up the sleeves, all that's left is the i-cord binding, blocking, and seaming. I laid out the back and front pieces together on my bed and it got an "Awwwwwwww!" from my mom. I love this little project, and I love this yarn. I think I'll have enough of it for a pair of wrist-length Evangelines, which will be better than wool in the summer.

One last update: didn't make it to any WWKIP Day events, because of work and general malaise. Did meet one local knitter just before I had to rush off to work, but that was it. I am heading down to Linda's for a KIP during her sidewalk sale - my grabby hands, let me show you them - on Friday, and some local knitters are trying to get organised in this area.