Photo Overload!

As I mentioned in the last entry, since my summer jobs have ended, I've returned home for a few weeks of relaxing and planning before returning to campus for the fall semester. I'm trying to pack as much as possible into that time, and blogging has slightly fallen by the wayside. Not knitting, or knitting-related activities though!

I got my Starbucks & Yarn swap package yesterday from anniebananie. What a lovely package!

One skein UrbanGypZ handpainted merino sock yarn in Electric Lizard: beautiful, machine-washable, and 560 yards!?!? AMAZING.

Some beautiful fingerless mitts which I plan to wear frequently while typing or researching in the chilly college library this fall/winter.

And pair of lovely drink cozies to put around the drinks I will buy with my $15 Starbucks gift card.

All in all, a fantastic package. Thank you so much Annie!

In other recent yarn-news, I purchased some Koigu on the cheap via the Ravelry destash boards.

In the end, I realized that it was from Nicole of Stash&Burn fame! And that was only my first brush with knitting celebrity: the second occurred on plurk, a site I tried resisting for nearly a month. It's a "microblogging" site where users just post quick blurbs and then can get quick responses. It's quite fun and tempting, with the concept of "Karma" worked in there. Anyway, I posted about an item I recently made for my swap send-to-partner, and Miss Violet of Lime'n'Violet responded! I'm still new to the plurk world, and not hugely chatty so I don't get a lot of responses, so I was way excited.

I think that about covers it, in the knitting realm. With all that lovely new yarn, in addition to my old projects, I sure need to get to work!