The fish blanket isn’t quite going swimmingly, but it’s getting there.  I set myself a deadline of wanting to be done by Halloween, but that’s certainly a little too ambitious.

I’ve been on the Secret of the Stole III list since the end of July, and am partway through Clue 3.  I recently joined the Mystery Stole 4 group, but haven’t chosen yarn or beads yet.  I’m waiting to see how the rest of the pattern turns out, since I don’t have much time to devote to it anyway.

I set aside the baby blanket I was working on – I was uninspired, and the fish edging was harder than I had originally hoped.  There are a few easy solutions to that (create the border pieces separately then join, forget about the fish) but I don’t want to think about figuring it out right now.

Current

Right now I’m working on the Festive Fish blanket I started a while ago from Lion Brand Homespun in blue and green.  It looks like 2 balls of yarn (one in each colour) will come close to making three rows of five fish.  I’m very pleased with the way they’re turning out, though a little worried about the ultimate washability of the yarn.  I’ll take some pictures of the fish and post them soon.  I also have several thoughts of making the small daisy pillows quicker by using the same Homespun for those as well, and maybe some flat coasters in addition.

In projects that I need to finish off there are the final touches on Rosemary’s prayer shawl and then the rest of the SotSII-inspired shawl I started for Irina.

I’m tempted to stock up on Koolaid tomorrow when I go shopping – Safeway currently has the small packets on sale.

Future

I’m looking for a nice shawl pattern that will only require around 880 yards of fingering weight yarn.  The beautiful teal and blue wool that Jess and I dyed needs to be used!