Stress Reaction

You got me! I've been chasing mine for weeks now, and not only isn't it any fun, I haven't come anywhere close to catching it. I have been buried in work, getting the kids ready to go back to school, and other miscellaneous shtuff! Unfortunately, very little of it had to do with knitting. Or, come to think of it, blogging. Or reading blogs. (Much to my chagrin, I missed two {count 'em, TWO} contests on blogs I usually read on a near daily basis. And one of them? I was a shoo-in, since the correct answer is also my Alma Mater)!

Prior to the onset of the madness that has been my life, I had a minor crisis with my Shetland Tea Shawl for the Gathering of Lace-A-Long. Specifically, which yarn to use for the STS. So I chose three. Yep, read it right, THREE! (In retrospect, that may very well have been the beginning of the madness)! Cast on and worked the first pattern. Trying to pick just one, ya know?

Lots of rain here in the Southwest has resulted in some pretty strange shrooms!

In the end, I think I am going to flout convention and go with the Cherry Tree Hill Old Rose colorway. Yep, the variegated. The very yarn that instigated the crisis in the first place. It's just so freaking pretty! (Though, lest you think I am completely insane, I am not tearing out either of the other two. My second choice, which may end up being first in the event of another crisis, is the Sunset colorway of KnitPicks Shadow).

During the incessant shopping for school supplies, and school clothes, and new glasses, and shoes, I did manage one totally unexpected and awesome score (read half price at Dillard�s). A knit bag! Cute, huh?

It's a knit bag, but is it a knitting bag? Time will tell!