I am losing my taste for knitting. Actually I'm losing it for almost everything so don't fret just yet. :)

Yesterday I cast on for the Hoover blanket from knitty. It's for one of my teachers-- Ms. Jennings (also the recipient of the damned Crusoe socks). She's having a baby in April, I think, and so I just had to knit something for her. :) I like the colors I picked, turquoise and coral. In my shopping cart I wasn't too sure of them, but next to eachother I am happy. The garter stitch border will be striped but then the center double-knit panel will be solid, so turquoise on one side and coral on the other.

In other knitting stuff I unearthed my case of dpns and will be working on a baby sock in Socks That Rock: Jewel of the Nile for my SP. "Just one sock?" you say? Yes. Just one. I am searching for the perfect old fashioned style purse clasp that will fit on a baby sock. See, at Hallmark they had cute little coinpurses made out of cute little baby socks, and they were lined too. I almost bought one, but then thought, I like knitting socks, and I have some super cool sock yarn at home. I didn't think of the relative difficulty I would encounter in finding the clasp. Curses!!!

Also... for a different secret pal, I am looking for something to make her cool stitch markers, but I am not getting lucky. I even tried the warhammer site, because I used to paint warhammer figures and the first figure I painted was a little mummy wielding a mace (my favs were the Skaven because they were awesome nasty little rat things.) But no luck. So I think I may end up making them out of fimo, but I hope I don't because I suck at sculpting.

I need to stop starting with "also" but--

Also, last night Barry and I decided to go ahead and sign me up for the Portland Marathon in October. I was reading about it in this month's issue of Prevention magazine, and decided that the Portland Marathon was pretty much something like what I was looking for, a big goal thing to work towards. They even have a kids' marathon to put Megan in, which is cool, because she'd have fun.

Anyhow, take care.