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The sweater for Dad grew a few more inches tonight and is at a point where it has to stay on a holder until I know more about what's going on with the saddle.

That won't be for a few days, though, as I'm on a flight to the West Coast in the morning, Seattle to be exact. I hope to get to check out a few of the LYS's, and I have a (short) shopping list which includes the replacement needles for the ones I can't find but need for the Dale sweater, yarn for two scarves which I need to make (one in purple of some sort and one, probably in some variety of Colinette in the Morocco colorway for a Moroccan colleague who won a charity raffle where one of the prizes is a custom knit scarf from me. The other is for a colleague who keeps mentioning that he really would like a purple scarf. And who am I to deny purple yarn from the pleasure of sliding across my purple-loving fingers? Is it wrong, tell me, is it so wrong, to dream of Lorna's Laces Lion and Lamb silk-wool blend in the Black Purl colorway? I'm going to see if one of the Seattle stores which carries Lorna's Laces yarn sells it so I can see if it feels as dreamy as I think it's going to. Then I'll either buy it on the spot or bother a couple guys I know while they're busy trying to, you know, move from one state to another to pursue their yarny dreams.

What knitting am I taking? I was thinking of taking some of the Lorna's Laces and starting a sock, but I'd need some of those pesky needles I can't quite track down. So instead, I chose something else that's been sitting in the pile for a long time. Just something simple: SSS, which, if you remember the history of this blog, is the Seed Stitch Scarf, a slowly growing monstrosity in Colinette Prism, Cardinal colorway in, yes, seed stitch. I wish someone had told me before I started this sweater just how slow seed stitch really is. Even on US10.5's it takes forever. It is a lovely scarf, though, and it will be really lovely to wear once it's done. Whenever the @*&# that may be. This project seems to be travel-knitting more than it seems to be anything else. It's been to Thailand, it's been to California (and therefore already to Seattle once, too), it's been to Africa, I think it's gone to Ohio, and probably some other places too. So what's one more trip? It's not like I'm going to finish it this week anyhow.

Posted by Jon at July 6, 2004 12:02 AM