The Last Place You Look

So, I'm always saying that I'll post pictures of whatever I'm knitting/doing/seeing on the street except that I can never find my camera. Then, when I do find it, I need to recharge the batteries. Of course, now that I have finally found my camera and I have some FOs to take pictures of, I've completely lost the battery recharger.

ARGH, indeed.

We'll just have to make do with not-so-very detailed summaries. I've been working on the Indigo Ripples skirt (from the Spring IK), but I'm horribly afraid that it's going to look super frumpy on me, what with the giant rear and not-so-great yarn sub (cotton-ease, which I hear is sort of awful? The fabric feels nice to me but I don't own skirts, knitted or otherwise, so I have no idea how it's going to turn out).

I'm also about a third of the way through the first sleeve of the Cambridge sweater (having finished all the body pieces) from last summer's IK for the gf, but it's just so incredibly boring, and the acrylic yarn (TLC Essentials, which is a LOVELY yarn, considering--my gf has wool issues and I don't trust her not to felt things anyway) on the plastic dpns makes the most awful noise. I can handle nails on a chalkboard, but not acrylic on plastic dpns? I keep throwing the sleeve away in frustration, since I will eventually have to make another, and that is enough to frighten me.

So, I decided to do something quick, and seeing as I just bought the Fitted Knits book and joined the KAL (I have yet to post), I chose the Two-Tone shrug. I guess this summer is all about clothing I don't already own (i.e. skirts, shrugs, etc). I'm doing it in Gryffindor colors and hope to have it finished by the premier of SOME Harry Potter-related thing next week, even though I identify as a Hufflepuff. I had all this burgundy yarn sitting around and not a lot of yellow left after the two Hufflepuff scarves I made a couple of years ago and I've got a self-imposed no-more-yarn-until-some-goes-away rule, so I figured I'd make do with what I've got. I'm about halfway through the body part (not the ribbing) and hope for the best. Anyway, now it's dinner time so I guess I'll end this ridiculously long post. It's because I've got new-blog-zeal.