The sound of silence

I've been gone for quite a while huh? Mostly it's because all my yarn was in a -80C freezer until Wednesday, but it's also because I've been away on the annual student retreat and then caught a stinker of a cold as soon as I got back. None of which is really conducive to knitting.

But I cracked last weekend, a week and half without touching yarn was just too long and even though I knew I'd be getting my entire stash back in just a couple if days, I thought a trip to Knitty City was in order.

Yum, ultra alpaca in peat mix! Ever since I knitted a scarf out of this forever and a day ago I've wanted to make something for myself out of it. (Incidentally, about a year after I gifted that scarf the recipient finally owned up to having lost it a couple of months after I gave it to him. Loser.) So temporarily loosing all my yarn to bed bugs gave me the prefect excuse opportunity to get myself set up with a new project, Kaino by Norah Gaughan. Unfortunately the dark colour of the yarn, combined with my camera's inability to capture green, plus overcast skies and well, snot, means I haven't been able to tkae a decent picture. There's a terrible one on ravelry but I'm hoping to replace it with something a bit more green and in focus soon. I'm past the armhole decreases on the back and with my current start of snot-production I should be onto the fronts soon....