Give it to me now (yarn that is)

So I did drag my friend to a yarn store over my birthday weekend in Carmel. Got some lovely noro silk blend yarn (I can't look at it at the moment given that I'm at work so I can't tell you exactly what it is)

In frustration at not being able to find my ipod...and for once knowing better than to take a lace project in the car with lots of distractions I've started another scarf as a gift for a friend. I suspect many people will at least get small knitted gifts for Christmas as an excuse to get some stuff out of my stash and out into the world!

The scarf I started is a simple basket weave with the yarn I picked up in Portland. It's turning out lovely in fact, looking almost like a waterfall given that it's all blues from light sky blue to almost black. Pictures forthcoming should I finish it and get access to a camera.

Other than that, not much going on. I was very glad to have not taken any knitting to the beach given that the water attacked our stuff (don't mock mother nature, boys and girls!) I managed to mostly save the hardcover I was reading but most of our other stuff was drenched!