Yeah, I'm still around.

It really has been a long time.  No particular reason, really.  It has been such a busy summer.  Barely any time to knit, no time to write!  A few things have been going on, though.  I drove to Maine.  I expected a 7 hour drive but it turned into 9!  This is the first time that I have ever driven so far by myself and with the kids in the car.  It had just started to drizzle when we were leaving but I ended up driving in torrential rain of biblical proportions.  I could barely see most of the time.  Of the 9 hours, I think it wasn't raining for maybe 40 minutes.  At first I thought that the rain had to stop when we got out of the Hudson Valley, then I thought it would stop sometime after we got out of New York state.  By the time we got to New Hampshire I had really given up hope and simply held onto the thought that maybe it wouldn't be raining for my entire trip to Maine.  Turned out that the weather and the rest of the trip was a lot of fun.  Not a lot of time to knit, but I did get to go to a bead store to get some beads for a quilt that needs a little something.  I am planning to bring the quilt to Martha's Vineyard for the beading so pictures will appear later.

After getting back from Maine I had one day to recover, do laundry and repack to head to Michigan for a unicycle convention.  Basically, the kids and David had a lot of fun and I was really hot.  I have decided that I will learn enough uni riding by next year to actually get myself through a race.  Please note that I said "get through" as am not planning on winning or placing, just getting through, hopefully without disqualifying myself somehow.  I didn't manage much knitting there either.  I did bring some projects along, Fiona's tank top and my Colinette Point 5 cardigan (both from waaaaay back), thinking that I would have some time in the hotel room to lay things out to measure and finish up, but not really.  I did start this scarf, having brought along the Noro Kureyon.  It was one of those things where I sort of remembered the pattern, thought I had the yarn, grabbed it and hoped for the best.  I had a bit of a time finding the pattern at first because I was looking for it on my phone's internet access which was too aggravating.  Once I got to a real computer it was a piece of cake.  I had the lovely luck that I had brought the right yarn.  So, after attempting to get a proper gauge, and failing several times, then figuring that it is just a scarf, not a fitted and highly constructed garment, so if the gauge is a bit off it would really be no big deal, I cast on.  I like the way it's going.  I really have to try to make time to take pictures during the daytime.  All my pictures taken at night are just horrible.  I am using the same yarn I used for my Moebius scarf (pictures will come, I promise, I promise), but I think I like the way the colors are working more in the Edgar scarf than the Moebius.  What is it with me and scarves named after men?  I wonder if this may be becoming a trend.

Well, as it is much later than I had really planned to be up, and I feel like I am just going to begin to ramble, I will end now and finish catching up, with pictures, in the next day or two.  But sure, I say that now.