I'm a little spooked:
So I've been playing around with apple's new iCloud system and my iPhone and I opened my apple email for the first time in months, maybe years. I've been having password issues with my me.com email so I just have ignored it for the most part.
Shortly after I did this, I received an email from my apple email to my gmail account that just says "Files" in the subject line, and it had this picture.
It's a picture I took almost a year ago of a scarf that I wove for a friend. The yarn is this yummy Noro Silk Garden, and I thought the colors reflected well her fabulously colorful personality. It's my first attempt at a leno weave pattern, which involved creating a string heddle to help me 'twist' the warp fibers with every other pass of the shuttle. What that means is that I took some string and tied little loops in it exactly every other inch. I wove it under every other strand in the warp, and then put the loops on a dowel. So when I lifted the dowel, it created a different space for me to throw the shuttle through. Sounds complicated, no? Thank goodness it takes up a lot of space and weaves really fast, because it was!
Pattern: Leno weave
Warp: Noro Silk Garden
Weft: Habu Silk (see Win, I do use the habu! :))
The weird thing is, I have absolutely no recollection of putting it in my apple email. I don't even remember ever accessing my apple email and using it for anything, much less uploading cool pictures like this. And then this email appears to myself from myself.
I guess it's a sign that I need to post about it !
A few weeks ago I checked out the Gurnee antique center for the first time. That place is huge!
One of E's christmas gifts: Socks. 
Michaels has started selling clear plastic ornaments finally - a boon for us folks with young kids in the house. I made these in a minute with some leftover weaving ends. The blue one has remnants of the shawl I made for Paris, and the pink/brown one has remnants of a scarf I made for my friend Thuy in Victoria.
In the bead shop, she fell in love with this. Next thing I knew, she had purchased the directions and beads and wire to make it. 
Okay, so maybe I do have a stitch-marker problem. But marking every single decrease (armhole and v-neck) gave me the proper number of stitches in the end, so I'm sticking with this method for my sweater vest.
This is a felted bag that one lady made with scraps of Noro. It is the Kalahari bag pattern and based on a mitered square idea. She is going to line it and put leather straps on it, and then donate it to her grandkid's school auction.
These are fingerless mittens that someone bought in Connecticut so her friends could reverse construct it. They look like a square of k2p2 ribbing in bulky yarn and then crazy yarn (have you seen those balls? this is something to do with them!), sewn up the side with a thumbhole left. Then it looks like they sewed some of that sari ribbon yarn around the wrist and cut it.
