after a chaotic day (I picked up my car the other day and drove home, all is good. yesterday on the way to work the check engine light comes on. dammit! on top of that, we ended up looking at a house closer to the Cities, thus disrupting my plans to go figure out what’s up with the car.), we got home late and I had two packages waiting. one from my Sockapalooza pal, and the other from my Knittyboard SP9. I did open them both, but didn’t have much time to enjoy what was in them (which means there’s chocolate waiting for me when I get home!).

so you’ll just have to wait for the pics.

in knitting news, I finished k-chan #3, except for the felting - since you can’t do that on a bus. I’m hoping to do that tonight. this morning I cast on a Harry Potter book scarf. I’m double-knitting it (I tried it in the round a while back and on size 0 needles, it just drove me nuts) in Gryffindor colors in the later movies style. ‘yarn’ is DMC Perle Cotton or something like that. I was worried it would take forever, but once I got into it, it seems to be going kind of quick