Right, so, I’ve been working away, thinking in terms of modularity and mobility.  I decided to make an afghan as my project for Clara’s wool-along, since that seems like the best way to unify so many different wools.  My February square (yes, February.  I know)  is knitted from Cormo that I dyed in a crockpot.  The block pattern is from The Great American Afghan.

The crewel work is done in the Blue-Faced Leicester I’m using for the March square, which is a gorgeous orange.

I keep ripping out my March square, and I’m waiting for my Targhee for April, so those will wait.

Meanwhile, I’m also planning a bathroom remodel.  Our upstairs bath has been a nightmare since we moved in, but we opted to redo the one our guests use before tackling the baddy.  We finally cracked once a leak surfaced somewhere in the shower plumbing upstairs.  Here are the tiles I’ve settled on.

We’ll use the pebble tile for the floor of the shower.  The listello will cover the curb of the shower pan, and I may pick somewhere else to put it too. The field tile is porcelain that’s glazed to look like marble–we wanted to go for something classic but also easy to take care of (and dirt cheap to boot).  The fixtures are Victorian(ish).  I still can’t believe that I’ve managed to stick with neutrals this time around.   I’m starting to see this bathroom as the official first step away from DC.   This bathroom is the last thing we can reasonably remodel in this house, which we will sell to strangers so we can move sometime not too far in the future.  I predict some green paint on the walls–nice, reversible paint in the neutral, sale-able bathroom.

Scott is close to another new pair of socks.  The green is from Sanguine Gryphon, and the gray is some random something that I tend to use for guys’ heels and toes.  The pattern is just a simple thing I’m toying with.  And yes, Yarrow demaded to make an appearance.

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