I seem to have gotten at least some of my spinning and knitting mojo back. I finished plying up around 300 yards of the blue/gray handspun today, which added to the first bobbin of approximately 250 yards, should be enough to make a Carol’s Clever Little Shawl. Here it is in the very early stages.

I’m really happy that you can see the blue color shifts after the yarn is knitted up. It should be a subtle but interesting effect in the shawl.

I’m also at the point where I need to divide the front of the Lutea Lace-Shoulder Shell to start the eponymous lace shoulder bits. I tried it on for the first time today and the fit is fine; I could have gone down a needle size, in fact, but maybe a little extra ease won’t be a bad thing in the next few months.

On another topic that’s occupying my mind this weekend, if someone had told me 3 months ago that I would be rigorously researching the pros and cons of all-in-one, prefold, pocket, and fitted cloth diapers, bookmarking patterns for nursing pads, reading up on swaddling techniques, and comparing different types of baby slings, I’d have told you that you were out of your flipping MIND.

Jag is to blame for this, since he left his copy of The Sagas of Icelanders laying around where I could find it and start reading in total fascination, but the working name for the little bean is Thorbeana for a girl, and Thorbean Monsterbeard for a boy. 😀 (There totally was a historical Thorolf Monster-beard. Icelandic nicknames were the coolest.)