Give a Hoot
Well, it’s been a while. I think most readers here are also following Flickr, Twitter, Facebook or some other source of info about me, but if not, the big news is that we’re moving to Dubai. Yes that Dubai, the Vegas of the Middle East. We leave toward the end of January. It’s sad and exciting and crazy all in one!
There is another family blog in the works that will focus primarily on that adventure, so this one will for the most part be relegated to craft news. Maybe some of my old readers will come back if I return to some sort of consisten subject matter here! Anybody remember the glory days of Secret Pal swaps? I hosted #2 way back in 2004. Were you there?
I’m bringing some yarn with me. I’ll be working full-time, maybe with a commute, so I expect to have a little knitting time each day. Instead of big warm sweaters for Midwest livin’ I am taking things in a lace shawl/scarf kind of direction–lighter things to cover the shoulders in air conditioning–and probably some cotton kid stuff for you know who. I hear it isn’t easy to buy nice yarns there, so I have stockpiled a little fingering-weight hand-dyed.
At the moment, I’m near done with my Nuss cardigan, but as I suspected halfway through it, I am going to run out of yarn. The extra ball has been ordered, and I hope to finish that project before I go.
I also made a pair of Give a Hoot owl mittens for a friend. I just love how they turned out. The pattern is easy and fast–I had these done in two nights I think.
