Lots of things this weekend.

First of all, the package of trade-yarn from Diann came!


Not just the things swapped for - the Opal grasshopper and tie-dye - but also a skein of some Colinette, and some candies, and a copy of a mystery novel by an author she had suggested to me (and it features a geologist!)

Wow!



The tie-dye is going to be some kind of leaf-based lace socks - either the ones from GOL or a pattern-mod that I did to Marilyn Roberts' "Leaves of Grass" socks.

The Colinette - probably a hat. I think there is a pattern for a seed stitch hat designed for Point 5 in one of the back issues of Vogue Knits.

And the Grasshopper, as is typical of most color change Opals, will probably look best as simple stockinette socks. So that's what it's going to become.

(I never know what to do when people give me books....Diann, if you want it back when I'm done, I'll send it back. Otherwise, I'll pass it on to my mom, who also enjoys mysteries).

And the box with her stuff should go out this afternoon, if I can break away from work before the P.O. closes.

Second, I finished the pink-and-green girly girl quilt:



(Slightly foreshortened because all the pics I took from a greater height came out shaky.)

Just in time, it's turned very cold and wet here (we might get snow on Tuesday night. All I can say is if it's icy Wednesday morning, I hope The Powers That Be cancel school).

And then, finally, some Old Knitted Stuff:



This is the Bloomfield Throw, which I completed back in like 2002. I wear it occasionally; wore it to church this Sunday so I took a picture after I got home. It's my one and only effort in intarsia. Were I to do intarsia again, it would require an extremely compelling pattern, or a project I just had to have. (I'm not a fan of doing intarsia).

I also did some shopping - I had to go to the Home Depot for some research-supplies. Of course, the Hobby Lobby is practically next door, so I had to stop in. I found some of the new Lion Suede, which I had been interested in, because I had heard about it but couldn't quite envision it.

It is not, as I expected, a direct knock-off of the Berroco Suede. Rather, it is sort of a very dense chenille-like yarn (seems less prone to shedding but I don't know that for sure.)

Although I had said I'd "work out of stash" for the next however-long, I did buy three balls to make the crocheted shawl printed on the ball band. Why? How do I justify this?

Well, first, I had said *just last week* that "I should get back into crocheting some again." So it was serendipity - a pattern, crocheted, that I would like to make out of a yarn I'd like to try.

Secondly, I plan to report about what the yarn's like here on the blog. So, as Clyde Crashcup was known to say, "It's for science."