So I bet you’re thinking, “That Emily! There is nothing going on over there!” Not true! It is just that here at the Beach Cabana there is only the laptop and Michael insists upon using it for something he calls “work.”

The Yarn Fairy has come to visit us several times cleverly disguised as Ronnie the Mail Carrier. He brought Great Gran some more sock yarn (when you are in a Frenzy, the Fixation goes FAST), a ball of Chinchila for a Chemo Care Cap (Have you ever made one of those things? It is like knitting a muppet.), and we got a Scarf Kit thinking that it was going to be a bunch of cool odds and ends but no! Just four skeins of Cotton Twist in loud loud turquoise. If anybody knows something to make out of four skeins of Cotton Twist that isn’t a six foot long scarf, I would love to hear about it. And to me, Ronnie/The Yarn Fairy brought Cotton Fine in Prarie Lupine to make the “Short-Sleeved Diamond Stitch Sweater” in Vintage Knits, some Cotton Fleece in Harvest (both from Lorien) to make a quick vest for me (it is good to have a few things in the ole stash), and the best present of all Denise Interchangeable Needles! Oh how they rock. They are an early Christmas present from Great Gran who needed a #8 circular and I needed a #7 and a #9 and so we decided it was much more economical to just go ahead and get the set. Joy. They are so cool, I spent a long time taking them apart and putting them together and seeing how long of a cord I could make.

The Diamond Stitch sweater is coming along sloooowly. It is on #0s and 1#s with about a million stitches so it will take a while. I have finished a sleeve. I think it will be nice if I ever get finished. Fortunately, I now live in a Hot Climate and short sleeved sweaters will get me well into October.