i'd just like to point out what you may/may not have missed:
nice! both of the nicky epstein books were half off. amazing! all i need now is knitting beyond the edge and i'll have all three of her finishings books. i haven't had a chance to look that closely at them but a cursory glance suggests lots of inspiring patterns and stitches. i picked up the knitters handbook for reference more than anything, it was only like six or seven dollars and i figured it would be nice to have a halfway-decent stitch guide around. all in all, i made out pretty well.
this is what i've been working on all weekend:
i frogged the original nautie that i was working on (switching yarns every other row was basically a huge pain in the ass) and started another one. this one is for my friend steve. i think it looks a lot better with just one color. this is pretty much a quick knit, as what you see in the picture was done in maybe three hours. em's working on one in a variegated yarn and i'm interested in how that's going to look. probably awesome. the only thing that i really don't like about this pattern is that it's stuffed as it's knit. that means stopping every four rows to add a little bit more fluff. hella annoying. overall, it's awesome and i plan on making myself a matching one when i'm done with this pattern. what more could you want than matching cephalopods! i have an overabundance of malabrigo yarn in this colorway (emerald blue), i might make the second one out of that and have a luxury sea snail, as the yarn is a buttery soft merino. i'm putting the cart just a little bit before the horse on that one though, so we'll see.melissa is demanding a pair of knucks, she's ordered the yarn and is having it shipped to my house so i'll be starting on those soon. i don't know what kind of yarn she ordered, nor do i know the colorway, so that will be a fun suprise. photos of all that to come!
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