It seems like I’m beginning every post these days (er, months) with a statement of how long it’s been since last time I posted. So now that those formalities are out of the way, hi! We survived the hurricane! Which happened last month! We were very, very lucky - we only lost power for a couple of days, and we had minimal damage to the house. Losing power sucks, but the cat vs dog interactions in our house during that time kept us entertained.

Silver had our friend’s dog cornered at one point and took over his bed the next day. Good girl, Silver. Make him work for that bed!

I’ve been doing lots of knits and purls lately, hence the blog update. I have three pairs of socks to blog, but ugh, the blog and I were talking about this and we are sick! of! socks! So we’ll save that for a future post. I’m happily knitting away on my 12th pair of socks, my last for the year. One pair didn’t use yarn from my stash, which means they don’t really count (my whole purpose was to reduce the sock stash), but I’m beyond caring at this point!

I did start some non-footwear knits. Like a sweater!

This is Baby Cables and Big Ones, Too. Sweaters in the past have not been so successful for me, so I’m trying something different with this one. I’ve knit this for my high-bust measurement so far, and once I split off the arms, I’ll increase a bunch for my bust, then do waist shaping as normal. Will this work? Hopefully! This hasn’t been completely smooth sailing, unfortunately:

I’ve also been doing some craft room/study/spare bedroom organization. This room has been a dumping ground for crap, so I bought a bookcase with doors and have been organizing all my fabric and study stuff in it. I even reserved a small shelf for some yarn.

Like handspun! This almost makes me want to start spinning again. I haven’t touched the wheel in months.

I have big plans for some cool weather accessories, even though it’s still 85 and sunny here. Hate you, Houston!