Can you have a nice horrid day? Today feels like it.

We haven't seen the sun all day and I don't think anything outside has been dry since yesterday but everything smells so fresh and earthy. There is no wind and the rain is more like a lazy mist that you run into. It is just cool enough to make you walk briskly and wear a cute hat.

Work was uneventful but the boss left early and the cafe gave us our tea for free at afternoon break.

The house is chilly but that just makes my cocoa taste better.

And I want to play with wool. Almost crave it really. I'm working on a little crochet right now but I'm still learning so it goes slowly. I think I need to start some knitting or maybe some spinning. Something earthy and rhythmic would be just right today. I'm going to go see what's in my stash.

It has been icky and grey here all weekend (though so far it hasn't rained today) and combined with the cool weather of the past week my fingers have been itching for wool. I'm still working on Rob's socks but wanted to get something else going. My first pick was the Hemlock Ring Blanket but I don't have the right needles so it will have to wait. While I was digging out the yarn for it though I found this purple stuff and remembered the slipper pattern it was intended for.

This is another one of those projects that I got the pattern and yarn for a long time ago when I was just learning to knit and then forgot about. I think I got the pattern while I was staying with my grandmother for reading break one year at school (which means I have had it for at least five years). I remember getting the yarn when I moved back here about four years ago - there wasn't a lot of colour choice and I couldn't find the right needles anywhere (this is before I knew how much I could find on the internet).

Fortunately I still like this colour and now have the right needles so when I was looking for something to do last night I cast on the first of these. It went really quickly and I finished it up this morning. It's going shrink up a lot when it's felted; right now it is so big that I put both my feet in it to keep them warm while I started the second one.