Did you know I still knit? I do.

Here's a little retrospective of my recent activity.

This is the old faithful mimi verylong pattern again, this time done with a skein of Silken in sherbet and just a bit of the skein of superfine silk I bought from Danielle last spring in "Light my Fire". I preferred Danielle's choice of colors -- pink, cherry red and yellow -- to the Silken skein, but just couldn't make lace work (in time for the wedding, mostly) with yarn that fine, so worked them held together. It's very long and quite wide and I wore it over a long, black sleeveless linen dress to my cousin's wedding last month. I think Danielle's original Light My Fire is one of my favorite colorways ever.

Someone's been waiting to see this for a while. Hi, Axe! This is Axelle's bamboo in the Briar Rose colorway. 840 yards of it. It was meant to be the stole I wore to my cousin's wedding, but the timing didn't work out and I just finished it this past week. As you can see, she is LONG. I knit it to the pattern width, so that I could get as much length out of it as possible. It's significantly finer than the yarn the Clapotis pattern calls for and I knit it on US#5s...so it took me a LONG time. If you look at the pics of J and I at The Point, you'll see it on the table cause I was working on it then too.

Anyway, I love the yarn. It's soft and sheeny and so pretty. I wish the color of the Briar Rose colorway were as deep dark brown on the bamboo as it is on the cashmere, but this is what happens with different fibers. Also, this yarn freaked me and Jenna and Steph out, because we were sure it was more green than brown when I first cast it on. I figured it out in the hotel room with Jillian. We'd been under fluorescent lighting at the *$ that night, and when viewed in natural light, this yarn is clearly brown. Never seen that effect happen so strongly before.

So that's what I've been knitting. I've also been collecting amazing tidbits of yarn and am trying to figure out what to knit next. I have a quantity of Summer Tweed in screaming pink that I adore. I have enough Blue Sky dyed cotton to make a Kyoto, but don't have the brain engaged enough to work out the math I need to do on it. I grabbed a skein of Schaefer cotton when I was at Flying Fingers [the wedding was in the next town...what luck!] and that's sitting at the back of my head. Burning a hole in my pocket are the 10 skeins of Trinity in summer colors to make...what? I'd love a lacy cardigan. In fact, I'd really love some completely non-traditional lacy cardigan patterns for future issues of Knitty.

HINT.