Love the 4-day weekend! Most of the time I
love like my job, but I got to attend 2 meetings last week meant to educate us about just how bad our financial situation is going to get. Property taxes are highly unpopular in Indiana right now, and property taxes are the main source of revenue for local government, libraries, and schools. So as the legislators try to respond to the property tax furor with tax credits and cuts, there's nothing replacing the lost revenue. My library budget is cut to bone now and there's potential for more substantial cuts coming. In order to sleep at night, I have to tell myself that our community will get the library they pay for and I can only do what I have the budget for. When services get cut, they'll have to call their state legislator and complain. Anyway... that is why I'm so loving this long weekend.
I finished the Rib & Cables socks.



Pattern: Rib & Cables socks by Nancy Bush, from Interweave Knits, Fall 2005
Yarn: Brown Sheep Wildfoote in Vinca Minor
Needles: Addi Turbo US2
Cast on: May 3, 2006
Finished: May 25, 2006
Comments: Nice, easy pattern. The heel is a little droopy; I should have made the heel flap a little shorter. The decreases for the toe are done with p3tog to make a little chevron pattern. I could have lived without that. By the time I finished an evening of p3tog I was in what VK calls my "Pissy Sally" mood. But like childbirth, all is soon forgotten.
I'm now entering my Fair Isle phase. Here is the extent of my FI experience:

So clearly I'm well-prepared. I cast on for the Norwegian stockings and I made it through the ribbing with no problems. I've done the first row of FI patterning without incident. And no, I'm not being paid by Dell for product placement, I was just too lazy to go outside for the picture.

The fiber festival last weekend was very spinning-oriented. Lots of roving. There was some handspun yarn, but overall a little disappointing. There's a huge fiber festival in Michigan (Michigan Fiber Festival) coming in August. I'm already saving my pennies. I did buy this lovely basket and 2 hanks of alpaca that is deliciously soft, but I have no idea what I'm going to do with it.


Gratuitous daisy picture:

Have a great weekend!