Monday Monday

Last week was crazy and disappeared as I served as lucky juror number 11 in a four day criminal trial. Who would have thought that I would have been selected? A couple of really good things came out of the experience:
1. I finished reading books 1 & 2 of the Harry Potter series.
2. I began working on a lovely green scarf for my friend Sateen Duraluxe.
3. I feel really good about our justice system.
4. I feel really proud to have served my community.

Saturday morning I went to the weaving center and priced and organized a lovely shipment of new yarns. (Saturday's are great!) And the new magazine Spin Off had just arrived. It's really great because Interweave seems to be moving the spun yarn into more knitting projects as opposed to weaving projects. As I am a yarn lover first, knitter second, spinner third, and most recently a very beginning weaver, I am content either direction they so choose.

So I will share a bit about my scarf project. Thinking that if I begin now, surely it will be complete by Christmas, it is a beautiful green silk and alpaca 2-ply hand-spun created by my friend Becky of spinning wheelers in east Texas. She introduced me to spinning, and I am constantly awed by her products. I am going with a basis k1,p1 pattern, but because the fiber is thinner in some spots and thicker in others, the pattern looks like crocodile skin. So i will call this a Crocodile Scarf. And yes, for all of you Reptile Fest fans, a crocodile is a reptile.