Today's progress

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One (1) load of laundry done
Cleaned kitchen so I could do mead things
Decanted and bottled one batch of oak leaf mead
Opened carboy on second batch of mead, frowned at the ook, and dumped the whole business in the compost pile
Cleaned carboys
Finished By's gift afghan, got the ends woven in, folded afghan for presentation, and left it in his chair (it's un-encatted so far)
Counted afghan squares, since I lost track: 192/169 squares

I'll update more about the trip later; I'm still not feeling too social.

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By's Afghan: there really isn't a pattern. It's shades of black and grey, two strands of yarn held together, worked in a rectangular granny pattern until it was big enough. The center was grey (a strand of plain grey acrylic with a strand of grey red heart symphony) and very soft, then a few inches of black lion brand thick chenille (very hard to count stitches in, I might add), then a bit of basic black, then a wide band of joanne's soft boucle in shaded greys, then a narrow border of black. It's a very manly afghan.


A Not-Garter-St Dishcloth: I like the scrubby action of the garter st, so I do a lot of those. This (http://www.mielkesfarm.com/dishclth.htm) round dishcloth is garter st, but it's a neat constuction. (It's easy than it looks, honest. I've done loads of these.) This (http://www.jimsyldesign.com/~dishbout/kpatterns/petal.html) is a slightly fancier version of that round cloth. This (http://www.jimsyldesign.com/~dishbout/kpatterns/swirl.html) is a stockingette cloth, octagonal, worked in the same method. This one (http://www.jimsyldesign.com/~dishbout/kpatterns/dblflower.html) is more complicated, but very pretty, and not too hard to keep track of when you're working it.

I've also done a bunch of this (http://www.knittingonthenet.com/patterns/clothpetal.htm) five-petalled cloth, which also has an unusual construction. But it's fun, and you can jazz it up once you get the pattern down.

A basic mitered square dishcloth (http://sasw.blogspot.com/2005/01/dishcloths.html), also garter stitch, but fast to work and adaptable. <a href="http://www.jimsyldesign.com/~dishbout/kpatterns/seedstitch.html>This</a> is a seed-st pattern that'd be fairly reversable.