Well, I’ve been abck to work, and well. Yep. Vacations are wonderful, but when you come back from one you remember why you wanted to go in the first place. xP Ah well. At least we’re not too swamped right now, and when I talked to Marietta, she told me that she has joined the blogosohere! She puts me to shame, so go! read!

Also, I have remedied the laziness from my last post, and have actually put links to all those amazing people I got to hang out with at Anime Boston, so you no longer have to be confused about them.

What was most exciting, I think, about returning home was that I had PRESENTS! My aunt and uncle and cousin Jes went off to Angkor Wat a few weeks ago (yes, I’m jealous,) and Jes- being one of the world’s Good People- sent me a present! I now have a really super soft trourist tshirt from Angkor Wat, and I also have a wonderful little coin purse!
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Of course, the first thing I did was to put stitch markers in it.
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You see, I needed the stitch markers desperately, because the other present I got was these!
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*GLEE!* oh man, the 50/50 wool/silk for the camisole is dead sexy. So soft. So yummy. mmmmm. And the and the mohair for the sweater? It’s also 10% silk. oh my GOD I am in fiber heaven! When you take the wool/silk/tencel blend and the wool/tencel I got in Boston into the mix it’s kinda a wonder that I’m making it out of the house at all! SO good.

Of course, I’m afraid that there’s a drawback. The camisole lace- the bit around the bottom that makes the scallops as if it were magic? I canNOT get the numbers to come out right after one row of repeats. The lace repeat is pretty easy, really. It’s a 9 stitchrepeat, no big deal, right? Across the 157 stitches of the bottom of this thing, I can get it right maybe… um… half the time? So I have about a thousand stitch markers in right now so I can maybe count bast three accurately. :P I am going to beat this.
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