Is it fall yet?

Okay, seriously. Something about the first summer heat wave just melts my brain completely. I’m behind on blogging, my inbox is a mess, I have packages to mail out that are refusing to walk themselves to the post office. But! The heat broke last night, and it’s gorgeous out now (I even had to turn my fan down), so I think I can finally brain again.

Er. Maybe.

So! There’s a lot to catch up on here. First things first, my seasonally inappropriate sweater, let me show you it:

I love, love, love this sweater. I love, love, love when something just comes together as it’s supposed to with a minimum of fuss. (The pattern writing is a different story—but my test knitters are on it.) And hopefully at some point soon I can get together with Ellen for some photoshoot fun.

Then I decided I needed a quick diversion project while waiting for yarn on a secret project, so I cast on for a modified Hyrna Herborgar. Er, which I finished five days later.

Of course then I realized that (unblocked, at least) it looks like a giant lettuce leaf when wrapped around my neck, and I hate lettuce. So I’ll send it off to someone who will appreciate it! The modifications I made were stupid simple; I really love the double yarn over columns that the first part of the chart makes, so I just continued working that over and over again until I was just about out of yarn, at which point I did the transition charts just to close the columns into tidy little points. This is definitely a version I’ll be knitting again. But not for myself, because I never seem to knit any variation of Hyrna for myself.

And my secret yarn still isn’t here, so I cast on for a tank top.

A tank top which looks awfully small, though I’ve tried it on several times and it does fit. I suppose we’ll see in a few days when I finish and block it! (And please pardon the terrible picture. It was knit night, there was alcohol, I was giggling too hard to hold the camera steady.)

That’s all I’ve got, really; the site’s undergoing some clean up and re-organizing in preparation to finally launch the on-site shop, I’m hoping to catch up on some email today, and maybe if I’m very, very lucky, my secret yarn will get here. I’ll let you know how it goes!