Not only back from 2 ½ weeks at the Beach, but back from a weekend in Pullman (visiting our daughter Sasha – and bringing her cat Samson, who had spent the summer at our house, back to her).  Lots of car knitting – and not a whole lot of other time spent knitting.  Well, I probably knit a little everyday, but less than I usually do. 

The weather at the Beach was fabulous!  Really, really glorious almost every minute of our entire stay.  Gorgeous.  As a result, I only had one opportunity to wear my Otter Rock Sweater (it was just too warm for alpaca sweaters!).  I probably could have worn my Gull Pi Shawl if I had had it done…well, next time, right?

(Me knitting the Gull Pi Shawl with a gull!)

I finished swatching and doing all the figuring for my “fun vacation knitting project” – only to realize that I had brought only the one ball of yarn (the one I was swatching with!).  Nuts.  Oh, well, next time, right?

Actually, I did manage to bring the rest of the yarn to Pullman and made a good start on it there and on the car ride home.  Tho I am little nervous about how quickly the ball is reducing – wondering if I have enough.  It was kind of a guess at to amounts – the yarn is the Isager Bomuld I scooped up from the bargain bin at Churchmouse Yarns & Teas in July.  Not sure there was any more.  The piece is a drapey vest-type garment made in a rectangle and I am calling it Glacier (because of the colors).

Oh, speaking of yarn purchases, there have been a few on my travels.  A quick stop at A Yarn for All Seasons in Newport for “baby pod” yarn (from Welcoming Home Baby the Handcrafted Way by Tricia Drake) – the yarns I chose are reds, blues, dark grays and there is a sort of Lumberjack feel to it all! 

I also bought some Jamieson Shetland Spindrift to make a traditional Fair Isle tam.

In Moscow (near Pullman), we went to the Farmers’ Market and I came away from the JerryLee Farm booth with two skeins of natural colored Lopi-style yarn (one brown, one black), two balls of “heathered bracken” colored wool (one chunky, one worsted 2-ply), and a chunky “heathered bronze.”  We found The Yarn Underground shop (which is, indeed, underground) and I picked up 2 skeins of locally dyed Stones Throw fingering weight wool – one in golds & bronzes with pinky-orange accents for me and one in a pretty range of pinks for Sarah (not pictured as Sarah has already taken it home, of course).  No plans for any of these yarns yet – just glad to get some lovely local yarn!