Harbor Birthday

For my birthday, Jack got us tickets to the live Boston performance of Welcome to Nightvale - Librarians. I highly recommend Welcome to Nightvale if you are looking for a podcast to add a little existential dread to your life.  The show was entertaining, especially the opening/musical act/weather. I remembered him from an older episode of the podcast as someone I meant to look up, but never remembered. Jack got me the tour poster! 

We stayed over in Boston, and at the last second of packing I threw Jared Flood's Hemlock Ring pattern and a ball of Cascade Eco Wool into my tote bag. When I couldn't sleep in on Saturday morning, I watched the sun rise while the planes took off across the water. 

It was a great way to cast on and fall in love with the first 20 rows (with copious water and coffee to counteract Friday's bottle of Prosecco). After a truly impressive brunch buffet at the hotel, we picked up a cake from Flour and headed down to Weymouth to visit my parents and sisters.

The Eco Wool skein was half used up in an ugly sweater, and when we got home after spending most of Saturday in Weymouth, I frogged the crap out of that thing. It was cathartic to empty out the space in my yarn drawer, and make room to knit something much lovelier.

I've also been working away on the "Geek Along" over at Ravelry, put together by Lattes and Llamas. This is a great afghan project where the group moderators post one double-knitting chart per week, with the intention of making a 48 square afghan (or 24, or 16, for smaller blankets). The subjects of the squares are assorted geek idolatry, (Zelda, Battlestar, TMNT, to name a few) hence the name. They are encouraging people to auction or sell the finished article off with the proceeds to benefit the Child's Play charity, but I have a feeling a lot of people will be keeping them for themselves.