Picture Time!
Here is how far I have gotten on the cthulu pillow:
And here's the tangled mess of yarns that is the back:
I've realized that I won't have enough yarn to make a 21" x 18+" panel for the back of this thing, so I need to get my buns to AC Moore to pick up another skein of the red to finish it up, along with some fabric and fiber fill to make the pillow form. While I'm there, I'll pick up a lining for the felted bag which is in my queue of projects, but not actually on the project list.
Also, I've been making progress on Bella. I'm most of the way through my second sleeve. I started the sleeves before I started the body, so this isn't as cool as it sounds. The yarn is at least 15 years old and so feels crinkly and dusty. When I made my swatch, I actually blocked it, and after washing it with a little shampoo, I threw some conditioner in, and it feels lovely and soft now, so it's OK.
I LOVE THIS PATTERN. OK, I actually don't like the pattern or the way it's proportioned or the phrasing, but the lace is lovely and oodles of fun.
I dropped a stitch on my first sleeve about a foot from the start of the sleeve caps, which I only noticed when I was about to finish said sleeve caps.
The sad thing is, because of that little ridge, I'm seriously considering throwing out about 3 hours worth of work to fix it. NOBODY WILL NOTICE IT BUT ME, and yet...
And an interesting note to leave on...
I had time to kill before catching my bus, so I wandered into Books-A-Million and grabbed a copy of Family Circle Easy Knitting to look through (and OH MY GOD, that white and blue peasanty top thing? SO hideous!). This early teen girl and her mother walks by and the girl exclaims in a really loud, contemptuous voice to make sure I can hear, "Oh my god! They have magazines for knitting? (beat) That's so cool... in a dorky kind of way."
::makes face::
We all know that she secretly yearns to become a fiber goddess herself.
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