Too sore to knit!

Wow, the drainage ditch and the cactus gardens are done! Well almost... I still need to add some cacti. But all the digging and shoveling is done. All the drainage pipes and all the gravel are in place. And I even planted some Agave plants already.

It felt good to do all this manual labor! But both hubby and I are sore all over! Name a body part... it hurts! The pain will subside, though, and the lovely front yard will stay. Now if we could just get the neighbor cats to stop using is as a litter box :).

Due to nightly pain recovery sessions, knitting took a bit of a back seat.

"Ellie Elephant" is still a work in progress... My vest thingy is still a work in progress... The good news is that the buses I take to work have started running again (after a short summer break), so I have more time to knit again. Though neither of these two projects lend themselves for commute knitting at this point.

SOOOOO, I had to start a new project... I got a huge load of yarn from a very nice person on Freecycle.I just can't believe my luck! All kinds of designer yarns and different kinds of sock yarns! Must of been a few hundred dollars worth of yarn in that box I got! Here is just a very small excerpt:

Among my loot were 14 skeins of ON Line Trend Setters' LINIE 78 VEGA (it appears to be a line from 2002). Color is purple with a metallic thread woven into an inconsistently bulky wool. Very nice!

I saw this nice vest/shawl at Coldwater Creek and am trying to use the yarn to make something similar.

Stay tuned...