10 Days to Go

For those of you outside the realm of the certified public accountant, my work and personal life will look pretty strange. At this point I have over 75 hrs and still another day to add more. My hope is just to sleep in tomorrow. My son's cough will probably get in the way of that, but I'll take whatever sleep I can get.

I'd rather talk about fun stuff. In the mail arrived some beautiful yarn. I signed up for another test knit for Aroha Knits. I'm so humbled to be part of the group and it's fun to use the pattern yarn. The pattern is called Sophyrosyne and it's a shawl for the next quarterly magazine that Aroha Knits will put out.

The yarn has cashmere and mink in it. I've never knit with mink it it's very lovely. I'll share my progress on it soon. I'm using silver for the main body and toxic buttercup for the lace edging. I'm thankful that the pattern is pretty laid back with increases on each end and a basic garter body. I'd love to test the other patterns, but there simply isn't enough time. The yarn arrived fast. New Zealand to the US west coast seem super fast. Check out:  Harnie Hoolie's Designs.

On April 19 I'm going to start a test crochet for my first paid for pattern. Three of my Facebook friend said they'd test it for me. I guess I had better finish writing the pattern :).

I'm keeping this post short and hope to feel more relief from work by next weekend. Have a great week and happy crafting.