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… and it's only noon!

The fun started last night, when I made a special trip down for a fun evening staff crochet class down at the shop.

Then there's a morning dog walk, followed immediately by the internal fortitude to head out for the week's long run. Seven miles in the streaming sunshine, beating the yard-sale-per-mile record by leaps and bounds. (I swear, we Pacific Northwesterners do know how to take advantage of our sunshine!)

A chocolate protein shake to keep the strength up, then a session of website primping to announce the new Unpattern up on Patternfish, and a celebratory Ravelry purchase/download to bring the weekend full circle (by noon on Saturday! a new record):

My summer-school fiber project (along with the Tour de Fleece, starting next Saturday):

Gallivant

a sideways crocheted skirt
designed by none other than...
My sister-in-law, Mooseknits!

Any yarn suggestions, D?
Stash diving now…
I may only come up for air in time for cocktails later.

Cheers, everyone!

... you're headed out the door for the day and seriously think:

"Pack my lip balm?
Naah. I'll look for a lip balm app."

(Oh yeah, and a hairbrush app, too.)

There's this, so I'm not that crazy, right?

Proof that too many app developers are boys. Beer before lip balm? Really.

Pop Quiz:

Which one of these makes me more of a geek?

1) Getting an iPhone G3S on the day of the launch.

2) Knitting a cozy for it by noon that same day.

3) Knitting same cozy in Linen Stitch.

Votes?

My aunt who taught me to knit, with me in a tapas bar in my 'hometown' in Germany.
With Boy there to capture the moment.

*The very same aunt who travels the world and makes amazing photo albums to look at later – and who always leaves one photo in the album labeled simply 'No comment.'

That we are:

A) Home;
B) Alive;
C) Back to work.

The black Malabrigo fingering-weight top-down set-in-sleeve pullover has one sleeve!
Cast it off with i-Cord bind-off as the plane was touching down in Seattle. How appropriate.

Louise seems to like it.