fishie’s aquarium

… is posted here. I’d put it in here too, but I’d feel dirty.

I’m exhausted from so many projects and deadlines and sick rabbits and vet bills that this post won’t be nearly as long as I thought it would be at the beginning of this week.

Around Monday or so, I went to Tuesday Morning with Chris to buy stuff and found lots of close-out yarn. It’s all Queensland Collection, and since it was at a close-out store, I could justify buying wool and mohair since I wasn’t creating a demand by doing so. I spent way more than I should have, but got beauties such as

I don’t think I ever posted the second Chakra hat, so here’s a two-for-one:

I finished the armwarmer things for a swap, and they ended up being a REALLY fast knit once I got the hang of them. I re-wrote the pattern so that it’s more organized and fixed up some errata, and I’m sending it to the recipient of them. I’ll probably be posting the improved pattern sometime soon too, but probably just in Craftster. I’ll link to it.

I’ve been working on the reversible ribbed hat too, and I’d post pictures but it looks exactly like the scarf at this point so I won’t bother. It’s coming along, but I’m a little puzzled as to how to do the decreases when the time comes.

Oh well.

My special order Tahki Yarn from California came today:

So beautiful.

I don’t have pictures of the table cloth, but I will once it’s finished. I just have one more triangle to sew on and then I need to stitch around the edges so I can throw it in the wash and have it be functional for the party tomorrow. I want to put a backing on it, but that’s not going to happen overnight.