In which we explore what's on the needles

Today is all about knitting. Not going to talk about anything but knitting. Just as soon as I talk about the power outage last night! There I was, watching Intervention, and all of a sudden, the power goes out. I had a brief moment of panic (did I pay the electric bill?), then realized that they wouldn't disconnect your power at 9:30 at night. (And I had paid the electric bill.) I went outside, and the neighbors were outside and NO ONE had power. It was that time of night where the sun has almost completely set and there's only a little ambient light left in the sky; I think one would refer to it as "gloaming." Everyone was on their phones, calling friends and family throughout our small town, seeing who had power and who didn't. All told, approximately 3000 people lost power, due to a transformer blowing up. The power was restored permanently (there was an instance of "now there's power, and now there isn't") around 12:45 AM or so. Funny how once the power was restored, I was able to go to sleep. Without it, it was too quiet!

Now we return you to your regularly scheduled knitting!

This is the progress on the February Lady sweater. The body is done and I've started the first sleeve.

Here is the sleeve. As always, click to biggify. The sleeve is quite easy, way fewer stitches than the body, and therefore going quickly. The only thing that I had a bit of trouble with was picking up the stitches. Other than that, it's been a relatively easy knit. My mom likes it so much that she wants one too!

Since I hate to be a one project knitter (everyone else is multi-tasking on the knitting, so why shouldn't I?), Saturday I cast on another Oriel Lace Scarf, this time with some laceweight that I ordered from fearlessfibers.etsy.com. This yarn is gorgeous, came in a neat, well-wrapped skein, wound up on the ball winder with no problems at all (which is huge for me, since I don't own a swift and the boyfriend objects to standing around holding yarn), and knits like a dream. This yarn could star in knitter porn!

These pictures don't do the colorway justice. It is called "majestic" and it's all purple mountain majesty, to me anyway. It's purple, dark smoky gray, lighter gray, and just lovely. I will take it outside today and try to capture a better picture of the colors. I highly recommend going to the Fearless Fibers shop on etsy.com and browse through the yarn. Prices are good, shipping is fast, and the yarn is scrumptious.