- Finishing the zigzag scarf for my mother
- Watching Shaun of the Dead (eeee! Bill Nighy!! love him!)
- Starting a purse for a birthday girl
- Making a sad attempt to organize all this yarn I’ve acquired in the past week
- Realizing that I didn’t have enough boucle yarn in the colorway I’d picked out for my mother-in-law’s scarf
- Watching that sequel to Bridget Jones’ Diary (meh. But getting to see another namby pamby fight scene with Firth and Grant was totally worth it.)
- Blocking the zigzag scarf for my mother
- Discovering that the boucle yarn colorway for my m-i-l’s scarf had been discontinued sometime last year after going to the Outlet Store to get more.
- Getting boba tea and spring rolls again.
- Cutting the fringe for my mother’s zigzag scarf and realizing it was too short.
- Getting a short haircut from my mother-in-law. (Have I ever mentioned the strange coincidence that Cody’s mother used to run a beauty shop in Los Lunas and my Mom worked in her Mother’s beauty shop in Memphis to put herself through college?)
- Playing around with the zigzag scarf fringe and some beads until I’d found a pretty good solution. (see photos in the extended entry)

Discovering that my experience with the ladies at the Fiesta Yarns Outlet Store is what most people associate with their local yarn store. I showed the zigzag scarf and ipod cozy to the woman who had helped us pick out some yarn the week I’d learned to knit in February. She was very proud (and probably not as impressed as she was acting but it was very sweet). She’s also usually the model for Fiesta’s patterns. She reminds me of Jocelyn’s mom. We love her.

Today we are going to:
- Go buy a new bed. The circa 1993 king futon and wood frame officially died. There goes our savings. Sorry Juus.
- If we have any money leftover we’re going for sushi. Thanks Heather.
- I’m really going to try to make it to Knit Night too. Thanks Meg!

I’m putting lots of picture in the extended entry since Mom wanted to be surprised. And there are lots in the photo journal as well. So no peeking Mom!


This was an experiment for a few things: my first attempt at an openwork lace pattern and I wanted to see how Fiesta’s rayon boucle worked in a lace pattern. Nothing like the creativity of the naive who don’t know any better.

The pattern is basically an elongated version of this dishcloth pattern - I cast on the same number of stitches and just knitted it a LOT longer than the pattern called for. It’s knit in Fiesta Yarns’ rayon boucle in the Caribbean colorway. Beads are from Joann fabrics.

The beading was just a solution for the fact that I’d cut the remaining 1/2 ounces of the boucle into fringe that was way too short to work properly. Luckily I’d bought some pearly beads to play with the fringe anyway. This was my solution. I think it’s fabulous.

So’s my new haircut when it hasn’t just been slept on.