hot day in the park

i know everyone in blogdom has been talking about it already, but ravelry is really awesome! i got in a few months ago but didn't really go on until this past week. i love that you can put patterns in your queue and look at everyone else's version of it. it's easy to spend ours on it just looking up patterns and seeing what's out there. i am super excited about all of the new fall patterns and yarns coming out. i just got the new rowan and interweave knits and there are a bunch of things that i want to knit from both. also did a little stash enhancing this weekend. i got 3 skeins of kaalund silk lace yarn from knitter's studio. never been to the shop before but very nice yarn and nice staff. not sure what i am going to do with this yarn, perhaps the honeybee stole or another shawl, but i just could not resist the color. it's called "forest floor."



the weather this week has also been a bit more condusive to knitting than it has this past summer. when it's over 100 outside and you don't have central air, knitting inside your steamy room isn't always the activity of choice. but it's been a bit cooler this week (it even sprinkled a bit today) and my friend took the opportunity to throw a little homemade soup/knitting party. nothing better than good snacks, good friends and knitting. i worked on a new project (yeah yeah i'll finish the old projects another day), inspired by ravelry and the wonderful new yarn i bought at unwind this week. they got in a whole huge new shipment of colinette jitterbug sock yarn and i couldn't resist. i saved 2 skeins for the beginnings of a chevron scarf.



the colors are gaugin and bright charcoal and i really like how they go together. apologies for the crappy picture but it's dark in my apt. i also saw stardust and superbad in the last week and both were really good. they could not be more different but i enjoyed them both immensely. check them out if you haven't already. well i am off to knit a bit more on the chevron scarf before i go to bed. hope everyone had a good weekend!

running

no time to post. comic-con (or commie-con as my friends like to call it) was awesome, as usual. it was really crowded this year, though. even after standing in line for almost 2 hours, i didn't get in to the heroes panel. that was kind of a bummer. but we saw lots of other cool stuff and i bought lots of fun things. i'll try to post about them more later but right now i am off to catch a plane to nashville, where i will be visiting a friend for a week. see you when i get back!