Black Sheep, Lace Bugs, and Summer School

Finally, I'm sitting down to write my Black Sheep post. Black Sheep was amazing! I spent too much money and therefore decided not to do Sock Summit. Besides I have enough sock yarn already to keep me in the sock until winter. I got five skeins of Socks That Rock (three are for another Clapotis), a skein of TOFUtsies, and a hank of lace yarn from Tactile. I finally got some HiyaHiya needles that I can't wait to try and a project bag from a friend of mine. I've been carrying it everywhere. My class with Joan was awesome. She brought several sweaters that she had knit to show us how some of the techniques she was teaching us could be used. I've decided that I will never be that prolific of a knitter, not for lack of trying though. ; )

Soft Horizons Stitch-a-thon was this last Friday and Saturday. I was only able to make if for a while on Friday afternoon and evening. I do have a hat that I need to take down to them tomorrow. It's made from virgin wool and it made me sneezy. Good thing it was from their donations bin, I'm taking the left overs back as well. Here's what it looks like -

I must also report that I've been bitten by the lace bug. I enjoyed making the Ice Queen Cowl (but the provisional cast-on has been a PITA to take out). I started the Cold Mountain Stole from Knitty the other day with the Tactile lace yarn I got at Black Sheep and I'm loving both the yarn and the pattern. Well, the pattern after I realized that some of the decreases are SSK instead of K2tog. You'd think that after 20+ years I'd have learned how to read things. Sigh I'll post a picture of it soon. I've also seen several other lace patterns that I really want to knit, hence the lace bug. We'll see how that turns out.

Summer classes have been going well. I'm loving the linguistics class, to the point where I'm wondering if I'm in the wrong field. Hmmm. The German Cinema class is pretty good as well and the short 'n' sweet Scandinavian Myth and Magic class left me wanting more... in a good way. I think these summer class are going to be better than the ones I took during the school year.