Happy May Day!

I am celebrating by working on the emerald green Triangular Summer Shawl – with its Lily of the Valley (nupps!) motif, it is particularly appropriate (May is my birthday month – emeralds my birthstone, Lily of the Valley my birth flower).

Not that it has been lace weather today – brrrr!  Frigid rain with occasional bursts of bright but tepid-at-best sunlight.

Yesterday, I finished swatching and arithmetic-ing my Inverted Cardigan – which I am calling the Blues Cruise Cardigan because the blue hues make me think of icebergs, the Mediterranean Sea, the fjords, etc. – all cruise sights.  It would be a good garment to bring on a cruise, too, I think.  Cozy, versatile, fun.

My swatch (with some stitch experimentation – not necessarily the final choice stitches for each yarn).  I should have photographed it outside in natural light (as Sarah has instructed me to do – and for good reason as the colors show truer that way), but it was too dang cold.  I could not face it.  So, I got as close as I could to a window and that will have to do!

Also, I seem to be knitting Lucy Neatby’s Mermaid Socks.  Blame the cold.  My feet were freezing yesterday and I had some lovely spring-colored wool sock yarn set aside for the Mermaid Socks (which look intriguingly fun to knit).  Besides, I think (and even Sarah concurs) that it is not unreasonable to have a sock project going – so portable and pick-up-in-spare-moments-able.  Probably Sarah was taking pity on me too – it is 90 degrees in North Carolina!