Summer Yarn Post

It is unnaturally hot.  Well, maybe it would be more accurate to say that I am having an unusually bad time with fairly ordinary summer weather.  I really ought to be working on farm squares or I won't have anything for this year's auction.  However, the wool for the yarn squares is rustic and coarse and warm, and it makes me even hotter to think about it, so instead, I'm doing this.

The biggest yarn news is:  The cable love cardi is finished!

It's pretty and it fits and it's way less ratty than the cardigan I keep for work.  For a while, I tried to kid myself that my work cardi was a "jacket" but I now have to face up to the fact that it's the kind of thing you might wear when you're sick because you can wipe your nose on the sleeve and it won't make things any worse.  Now I have cable love to replace it.  If I wear it, I'll get compliments, and that will be embarrassing.  OMG did you make that one too?!  Hm.  And I will have to be gracious about it because people are only trying to be nice.

I have also finished up some Ye Olde Yarne projects from leftover stuff.

 (Yes, that's me in the Minnie Mouse t-shirt.  I was always fat.)

This one was taken on a nice day when it was possible for me to go outside.  Ah memories!

And finally, socks from the last of the crap yarn.

I'm waiting for the yarn for my next sweater to arrive, and I think I know what I want to do with the llama wool I have.  For now, I have farm squares and one pair of socks to finish, and one scarf.  The next big cast-on day isn't for a month, but I probably won't make it that long.

It's the dead part of the summer.  There's no football except for a few junior international tournaments, and the Tour de France is three weeks or so away.  It's too hot to lounge outside, much less exercise.  My hair is too short to put in a ponytail and too long to leave down.  They keep promising me thunderstorms, but all I really want to do is make gelato, eat cold fruit, and take naps.