Saturday, July 19, 2008

Odds and ends and too much sun!

Wow, it's been almost two months since I last posted! How time flies when it's summer!
I've been doing one of my favorite things lately: summer field work! I'm a botanist and this summer I'm surveying rare plants.


(I know this is a knitting blog but I think the seeds of 3 flowered avens look like something you could knit with don't you? :)

All this time outside has given me a tan. Normally I have a farmer style tan... back of the neck, arms tanned starting at the mid bicep, and maybe a sandal tan for good measure! But this year I've noticed a different sort of tan that I haven't seen before:



I'm coining a new term for it: Knitter's tan. Note the darker shade of my index finger and thumb. I must be from all the knitting I did while camping and at the Winnipeg folk festival.

Speaking of knitting, things are coming along.

Central Park Hoodie: DONE



Sheeples socks: One done, second almost to the heel.


Love love love Sheeples!!! (we went on a field trip to a sheep farm called Sheeples to pet lambs and see how they make yarn and learn how to spin... fun fun fun!!!! of course some yarn followed me home...)




Socks for Hubby: One almost done (but I may have to frog some of it or else I'll run out of yarn.... big feet...... :P)

Starting next: Rogue Hoodie in mmm Alpaca.... Photos to come!

I'll try not to wait so long to post again.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Knitters tan indeed!!

I love the little lamb you are holding!! I will have to get up to sheeples soon.

Maria

purple_niko said...

You have to bring your CPH to the next SnB you make it to...I'd love to see it! (And maybe try it on to see how it fits??)
It looks gorgeous!

:)