So, here’s what “tornadoes were forming but didn’t touch down” kind of looks like the next day.

I woke up at 3:30 in the morning, thinking a freight train was aiming straight at the house.  If that’s not the real thing, then I sure don’t ever want to meet it!

At the back of the picture you can see the three large trees torn right out by the roots.

It snapped those two trees off (sort of twisted off the one) and laid them on my vegie garden.  Freaky.  I figure I was pretty lucky that all that got damaged were some corn plants in the garden.

I won’t post a picture of the Sort of Cornish Guernsey.  It still needs the neck and sleeve ribbing done, and I’ve been working on this:

Yes, I know.  Fuzzy picture.  That’s because it’s another Secret Project.  It is a tad behind my self imposed schedule.  At 30C it’s hard to knit with wool.  I finally started getting up at 5AM when it was only 20C and knit for an hour.  Today it is finally back to reasonable temperatures, so I should have it done by lunch time.

The Finn yarn and roving should be shipped to me on Thursday on the bus.  Then next up at the mill is the Icelandic laceweight.  I just talked to Sheila about the processing.  There is some grey on a couple of the fleeces, and we decided to not over-card to get a homogenous blend.  It will still have a bit of a light heathery look to it, which will look lovely knit up, and give depth to any overdyeing.  This is being spun from beautiful lamb fleece from a farm here in Alberta.

I am rooting around in the stash and planning out a whole whack of baby projects.  I decided to sort of test out some of the ideas by first knitting hats/socks for the Grand Baby.  A baby can’t have too many of either one, and it will hopefully slow me down on that starititis thing…you know, cast on, knit a bit, not too happy with it, get out new wool, cast on, repeat.

I am just going to ignore the fact that I was going to post to this blog every week.  I am going to totally ignore July.

Ms. V. has no big project for July.  Yet.  So, that puts her 1 behind on the great project a month challenge.  Which made me stop and take stock where I am with this.  I am arbitrarily putting a month beside a project, since I can cause I make the rules.

Willy Nilly Almost a Pi - January (recipe here, yarn packs here)

Feathers Wrap - February (pattern here)

Blue and Yellow sweater - March (this marinated in the closet for so long, the yarn company is long out of business!)

Bear Hills Shawl (pattern coming soon) - April

Tech Edited all my patterns - May (now this isn’t knitting, but it was a huge job that got put off so it counts)

Secret Project - secret no longer- June   go here,  and click on the Preview.  Now click on the bottom right corner of the book so the page turns to the contents.  Now look down there in the bottom right corner of the Patterns list.  See that???  Rib Fantastic???  by Barb Brown????  That’d be ME!!!  Now that was a big project!  (None of my hats fit, and the buttons are busted off all my shirts)

JCA Reynolds Spring 2009 collection July- pattern and project done and accepted.  Another Big Project.

So, here we are in August and I am working away on the Sort of a Cornish Guernsey for the old guy, done in Jacob yarn.  I need to do the cuff on one sleeve, the collar, and about 2/3 of the other sleeve.  It will be done by the end of the month.  (I think)

There are some new products on the site, and more to come.  Check out Sock Yarns, Specials (FREE shipping on these) Laceweight, and the new Felting Yarn.

Oh yes…and did I mention??  I am going to be a GRANNY!!!!  in the early spring.  I am rooting through the stash, and the old patterns and getting set to knit up a storm.  Doing the happy dance.