A Vile Virus

I am dealing with the most awful virus right now. It started at 3 a.m. on Monday morning with disgusting details I will omit that went on for about eight miserable hours. The rest of the day was spent in bed with a horrendous headache that is continuing today. I haven't been able to read or knit longer than ten minutes at a time, so I thought I'd try and distract myself with pictures of yarn. (By the way, I've noticed that 75% of my photo folders are labeled "yarn", which isn't much of a filing system, is it?)


Here is the baby blanket in progress; I was able to knit on it on our daytrip to Richmond Saturday, but I spent some of the time tinking too, so progress is slower than it should be for this simple pattern.

Here is the trial blanket I started and will frog; I don't like garter stitch with this yarn and I don't really like the pale yellow either. I think I'm going to bundle all the yellow yarn up and give it away. I've had it for years, and everytime I try to knit something with it I put it back, so it needs to go.

Here's the crazy section. Despite a resolution to stop buying yarn until I've used some of the gorgeous yarn I already own, I picked this up Saturday, cause it reminded me of the denim yarn I used to knit baby boy hats with and can no longer find. It's a finer gauge, but I'm pretty sure it'll be an adorable infant cap.

And these two beauties seemed to be perfect for a striped baby pullover (all the coworkers seem to have baby boys), especially since the yarn is discontinued and it's superwash!

I bought this last week because it was on sale and I liked the colors but I have no idea what I'm going to do with it, other than enjoy looking at it.

It's sitting on top of the dvd of the BBC's North & South I rented Sunday night. That was a timely rental, as it was the only thing I could manage to do when I was awake. I finished it this afternoon and it was grand. While the main characters were wonderful, I also loved Sinead Cusack as John's mother. It filled my Masterpiece jones this week, since I didn't really enjoy the one that's running now, although I'm not sure why. My next rental is going to be Wives & Daughters, just as soon as I'm well enough to make the video store run.