I spent the weekend knitting, reading, officiating tennis, knitting and reading. Exciting huh? If only it was not the truth.

I managed to finish up the back of the Ribbi and the beginning of the left side. The farther I get along the more I feel inclined to rip the whole thing and start over. That would give me something to do on the way to NY and such. Hopefully I will be done with round one before we leave, and can decide if it is too small, yet another reason to rip it and start over other than the uneven stitches and horrible looking decreases around the armholes. Here is where I am at.

I had some time to work on my grandmothers felted bag, (I will remember to look up the book and pattern on that one) while at the movies last week. I saw The Island, even though it was entertaining it had a crappy plot. This has turned into my non-distracting project that I can do in the dark or at work during lunch. It is getting close and with my brother heading off for a visit to Grandma soon I have a deadline. I believe I am about 10 or so rows from starting on the base of this one.

I have also decided to make a second Klaralund on our trip. My first turned out huge, really really big. I think some of it was stretching during blocking, it also had some mistakes I would like to fix, so I will most likely go with smaller needles and a smaller size. This also gives me the chance to get a new color since I was not thrilled with the first colorway. I bought Noro Silk Garden in #88 for this. Lighter colors with not so many dark striping. I really did like the colors of my first Klara but there were these large brown/'blackish stripes I did not like so much. And well it being my first sweater I didn't worry as much about the coloring as I did the look and when I started looking at the coloring more I realized it was just odd looking to me. So hopefully the lessons learned the new color will make for a happy second round, even if expensive.

The Michigan scarf has received no attention, and it does have a deadline but it could be fudgeable since the deadline is while I am in NY and I can't very well give it to the person while we are in different states. Nor is it all that much fun, once the bag is done it will be come my distractable project.