OK, here are some pictures about Tuesday (now that it is Wednesday). First I must confess that I’m easily amused. I love to look at patterns of numbers. I remember when my last car, Martha, turned over 123,456 miles (it was in the driveway of my old house, actually). And I love the number 8, I always have. So yesterday just north of Ann Arbor, when my car, Joy, hit 88,888 miles, I pulled off on the side of the road and took a picture. (I told you I was easily amused!)

When I found myself with my friends at Eastern Accents, we had a little show and tell. Many of us were in the middle of projects, but Jackie had just finished a vest she made from yarns she got from Joslyn’s Fiber Farm. Isn’t it great? She was very pleased, and rightly so.

What I have been knitting the last few days (since I finished the rug sample for the Yarn Garden Class), is a pillow for Threadbear. I figure pillows are a great gift and we are heading into gift season. (Class is Friday, November 5, mid-day, for just 2.5 hours.)

I still have some pillows that my friend Sigrid (the one who lives in Oregon who I saw recently) made for me around 1992 or so (she used fabric from the 1950s because it was my colors). I love those pillows… they are getting worn out but I will not give them up because my friend made them for me.

So I’m knitting a pillow. I’m knitting it from this Lorna’s Laces yarn, called Fisherman. The pattern I’m using is a Michelle Wyman pattern where you knit on the diagonal, either garter or seed stitch, either one yarn or several in stripes. It is going fast enough, I guess, but the yarn swears it’s worsted weight but I would call it a DK weight. I’m knitting on size 6 needles, which is in between the sizes I usually knit. I’m either on size 0 (2mm) double points for socks, or size 13 (9mm) for stoles or rugs.

The colorway is called Yellowstone, and is cream with lilac, pale yellow and soft warm green. I like it fine I guess, but it is not really bright enough to keep my attention. I’m close to finishing the first piece, and the thought of doing another one exactly the same is not appealing right now. I must say, though, that this garter stitch on a bias is really mixing the Lorna’s Laces yarn very well. I think garter stitch is very beautiful with many handpainted or variegated yarns.

I *am* glad to be doing garter stitch after all that basketweave, but on these relatively small needles it takes a lot of stitches. I think I will add some eyelash yarn in stripes on the next piece. Just for fun. I have some purple Fizz… it’s a little more vibrant than the yarn’s lilac but they go well together, and fizz will be just some little lashes so it’s not like we have two solids that must match. They just need to “go” as I tell the preteens I work with. That could be more fun for the second pillow side. I think I’ll probably go for that. It’s not in Michelle’s pattern, but it will make my time go faster as I knit! And I think pillows are a wonderful place to use eyelash!

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