I was really disappointed not to be able to change the look of the blog but wasn't willing to spend inordinate amounts of time to play around.  Then I got up this morning and lo and behold, blogger offered different choices and made it easy for me.  I kinda like this one.  It appeals to my sense of summer whimsy.

When I say nothing much has happened this week, I really really mean it.  It was a quiet one.  I think I had a small cold and kept falling asleep at my desk at work.  I got enough sleep (or what I thought was enough) but I would find myself nodding off.  I just didn't seem to have any energy so Pk and I took a "gym vacation" for a week.  Tomorrow it's back to regular workouts.

Yesterday, I spent some time spinning.  I was spinning along on this roving that I bought quite a while ago.  I think it's merino.  I like the colors and have been playing with it for a while.  I have enough just about 4 ounces of it so it may be enough for a pair of mitts or maybe a small scarf.  It spins nicely and my singles are nice and even.  I've got about half a bobbin full.

Last year, I took part in an online swap.  It was baked goods and yarn.  How can you go wrong?  I love both of those things.   I put together my box and sent it off to a knitter in California and I got a wonderful box of goodies from a knitter in Florida.  Now, if you don't know anything about Florida, I'll tell you.  It's hot and humid most of the time.  Even in the winter, it rarely freezes (although there are years when the citrus crops are threatened by cold weather).  People tend to go for bright colors.  This was a long explanation to explain this roving.  It came in the swap box.  It's bright blue, white and some neon yellow and lots of sparkly bits.  There isn't much of it, just a few ounces but it is so much fun to spin.  It reminds me of fairies.  I think I'll use it to make a headband of some kind for my niece, Maggy.  She likes sparklie girlie things and I think this will appeal to her.

We went to Kate's for dinner and World Cup games last night.  Pk has been following the games online.  ESPN3 plays them as replays and he can see the ones he wants.  Last night was the USA vs England and Pk, Kate and Elanor all wanted to watch.  I made lasagna and Kate made desert and we went over and ......no game.  They kept saying the game would be available but it wasn't. ( Since Kate had to work, they couldn't watch it live).  We watched Nigeria vs Argentina instead.  Kinda boring if you ask me but I knitted on a plain vanilla striped sock.

I am on the last chart for the Travelling Woman and I think this is one of the fastest, easiest patterns I have ever used.  It's easy to see if you've miscounted (not that I ever miscount!) and easy to fix mistakes.  I haven't worked much on the legolas kerchief but I'm thinking I'll get to it today.

It's really humid today.  We're expecting heavy thunderstorms.  We've been expecting them all week but except for a bit on Thursday, they've all floated off overhead.  I think today may be the day.  Pk is going to play with the torch  we bought him this week.  It's an MPP gas torch and is supposed to burn  hotter than propane.  He's trying to melt some metal tool so he can reshape it.  Yep, he secretly wants to be a blacksmith.

I wrote and deleted a paragraph on the evenstar kal.  I'm not sure how much I want to talk about the kal but I have a question for those of you who have participated in a designer led kal.  Did you expect a perfect pattern and did you get one?  Or were there errata?  If there were, how much and how did you feel about it?

This was the first kal of this kind I had ever done and I had no expectations beyond the fact that we were all knitting the same thing and would all end up with something beautiful at the end.  I knew the designer was still working out the kinks and I was ok with that.  Other people had different expectations and they feel their expectations were not met.  It has been a heated discussion at times.  I don't want to make light of people's concerns/problems so I moderate as little as possible and just try to keep things civil.  I wasn't expecting this.  There were over a thousand folks in this kal and maybe some issues are to be expected in a group that large.  What do you think?