How well do you think scare tactics are working this year?

Time for a Knit-a-palooza!  I've had plenty of knitting time with all the Dem convention watching last week...

I finished sewing together my funky linen sweater, and I love the colors of the yarn:

(and yes, I do hate having my picture taken-why do you ask?)

First up is the linen wrap cardigan that I've been working on:

It's made up of 5 rectangles of varying sizes (1 back, 2 fronts, and 2 sleeves), and I'm almost finished the last sleeve.  I would have been finished earlier this week, but I got carried away while knitting in the car on the way home from the beach (10 hours on the road will do that to you), and had to rip back because I knit too much!  Then I had to rip back a second time because I was afraid I wouldn't have enough yarn left to sew the pieces together.  I think I'm good now.  Just have to put it together.

Next up:  My little Lace Ribbon scarf.  I've been knitting on this eveyrwhere I go this summer- Italy, Austin, algebra class, the orthondontist, the Vans Warped Tour concert, you name it.  I only have a little further to go, and then it's done, but its not quite finished yet either.

To make up for the lack of knitting pictures, I guess I can add some gratuitous vacation photos.

I loved this sign on the coffee shop bulletin board in Ocracoke:

And check out the unexpected catch in CBtY's crab trap:

That's all of got.  What's needling you?

Happy Friday!

I had plenty of knitting time on the plane to Switzerland and Italy, so I took along a little lace scarf I'm working on.  The pattern is Lace Ribbon Scarf, and it's a nice little pattern that uses sock yarn (I chose Araucania Ranco, and I'm probably halfway finished.  It's pretty easy once you memorize the pattern....I just won't tell you that it took me hours of knitting and un-knitting to do that.  :)

Here's a close-up (click to embiggen):

I went to Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival last weekend.  Here's a picture of some of the Festival headliners:

There's all sorts of stuff at the festival, and not just sheep and yarn (although that is a major draw!)  They have all sorts of events, a Sheep to Shawl competition (yep, teams include a shearer, 2 spinners, and a weaver, and they really do go from sheep to shawl right there in front of everyone.

Here's one of the more exotic blue ribbon winners in the handspun yarn category:

And here's a better picture of the winning yarn.  A little creepy, but very clever, wouldn't you say?

The sheepdog herding demonstrations are always cool:

Funny how much of it still applies to life 200+ years later...