things I've been doing

I've been busy lately, and a bunch of it is even stuff that's relevant to this blog.

While I was doing laundry last Sunday, washing things that were near the moths, I finished spinning my first three-ply yarn:

This is my ounce of Boogie merino in salvia, about 60 yards. (That's getting to be an awfully common skein size for me...) Anyway, I'm really happy with the way it looks, especially in the bits where the three plies are all different shades.

I've also been working on my sock (the toe-up one I cast on at the Harry & the Potters show), both at the Satellite (coffee shop) craft night on Wednesday and at the Sufjan Stevens concert last night. (In addition to bits and pieces of standing on lines and sitting in trolleys.)

It's grown a lot--the black line is approximately how far along it was at noon on Wednesday.

So that's about 3h of knitting on Wednesday, plus about 3h of knitting last night...stockinette socks are fast, even on small needles.

But one of the reasons I like stockinette like that is so I can look at other things while I knit. Like the Sufjan Stevens concert, which was (as I expected) fun to watch as well as to hear.

I took this during "Jacksonville"; I think the projected images were supposed to have something to do with either Jacksonville or just small towns...(?) But the sorta movie-ish bits for all of the songs were fun, as was the concert over all. Yay, live music.