I am soaked right now, and the cats are tearing around the house like crazy. It’s pouring right now, and has been crazy rainy these past few days. I worked from home yesterday, and around 11am I looked up and said “whoa.” It was extremely dark right before it started raining. An hour later it was sunny and happy and looking less like an impending apocalypse. No fireworks us on the 4th - it was soggy the whole day, and I wasn’t really in the mood to sit outside. I went shopping instead, and bought some super cute hooks from Anthropologie to hang my poor, unused scarves in our study (aka the Cold Room).

Green Gable is trucking along, and I’m up to the waist increases. I’ve completely abandoned the pattern after the lace part - I’m winging it myself to get this to fit Kelly, rather than the crazy, random measurements in the pattern. I’ve discovered a new, quick way to try it on as I go: I slip the stitches on to a couple of other circular needles. It sure beats threading the whole thing onto waste yarn, trying it on, then putting all of the stitches back onto the needle.

Knitpicks Shine isn’t the most durable yarn. It tolerated Blackie’s laying on it pretty well, but Silver snagged a bit with her nail, and that part looks poopy. Good thing the snagged part is on the side of the sweater. The yarn is sooo soft though, and so very cheap.