A Tale of 2 Purples: Almost but not quite

First of all I had a great weekend. I hope you did too. I had family time, alone time, exercise time and relaxing time.

I was feeling the knits and divided my time between the neon socks and the end of a shawl.

I always forget how long those last rows take. The pattern is easy breezy fun, so it wasn't a problem. But I also forgot while I was casting off (ever so confidently) that I had gone up a needle size, maybe 2. (Details really, who can be bothered, when you're just knitting for your life?)

I ran out of yarn.

Monday night, I skipped the gym, and had a great night with the Big and The Kid. We had dinner, together, at the kitchen table (our only shared eating table -- yet still we aren't there together enough), we shared laundry chores and all the latest Middle School news (which for my son is approximately 3 or 4 sentences about what he's doing at school, but that's like a novel for me, I'll take it.)

I spent  the rest of the evening backing out a row or two for a clean cast off. This was fine. This is par for the course for a late night knitter.

I even managed to start blocking it. I took this picture this morning after I had to "reblock" it. See, that old ottoman (that my husband has threatened to get rid of for 2 years) is not big enough  to block it's full size. So I focused on one half of the triangle over night and re-pinned it today. She's really opening up, now :)

In most photos and light the yarn is very grape jelly. I tried to take a close up for you though, so you could see some of the true color.



I admit the Old Navy camoflague beach towel underneath isn't helping. I'll try to get a proper photo later this week for you when I've finished blocking it and can get some natural light.

And to all the knitters with the great posts on books and audio books, thanks. You are all inspiring. I read a bit this weekend. Not much, but enough to remind me how much I like it. Reading Queue as of now: A Spectacle of Corruption and To Kill a Mockingbird (it's time to revisit).

Mysteries have been my escapism the past 5 years or so. My husband tends to like the ones with the crazy people in it like Girl On a Train, etc. It will probably take me until the summer to catch up with my other reading wishes, but please let me know if you have any recommendations.