Chris made it look like so much fun, so here’s a look inside my purse. You know, it’s really amazing how much the stuff spreads out when you release it.

Starting on the left and going mostly clockwise, we have: a silk scarf to tie over my hair when needed, my sock-in-progress in its bright blue bag, my credit card case, my car keys, Moo cards, inhaler (just in case.) Then my camera in its handknit little bag, my cell phone. The largest item, my eyeglasses–mostly because I need to carry both my regular glasses and my sunglasses with me, even though I rarely wear the regular ones any more. (Thank you, Ocuvite vitamins.) A tin of mints, my change purse, a Ticked Off spoon, a pair of wooden Hair Styx, lip gloss, and a doggie bag . . . because you never know.

It looks and sounds like SO much stuff, and yet it fits quite nicely . . . it’s really only the knitting that seems to take up an excessive amount of space and, well, I’ll just have to live with that, huh?

No new photos of my Autumn Rose to show you, but I’m all the way up to row 7. (Yes, let’s hear the awed "oohs" and "ahs.")

I haven’t touched my Ribby sleeves in the last couple of nights, I’ve been so eager to get the Autumn Rose moving along, but I’ll work on those this weekend.

I do need to address my socks, though. I haven’t gotten more than  a row or three done since last week, but would like to get a third pair done for the Summer of Socks. Those sock tallys are quite impressive–Cookie has made 27 pairs. Wow!

And, my lace? My poor lace. I haven’t even touched it in a couple weeks. I don’t know that I can entirely blame the Zephyr. That’s part of it, but more, it’s that I’ve clearly been bitten by the Fair Isle bug. So between wanting to work on Autumn Rose and not entirely enjoying knitting with the (beautiful, silky, lovely) Zephyr, well . . . Poor shawl.

How much am I loving my (slow-moving) Autumn Rose?

Well, enough that I bought her her very own, coordinating Baggallini One-Tote bag. Which, I have to tell you, I’m very impressed with. Lots of pockets and loops and tethers and sections and pockets and zippers and snaps and pockets . . . It’s three main sections–a big, zippered one in the center, with two snap-closed ones at either end, but within each section, there are smaller pockets, places for cell phones, pens, accessories . . . And wow, it’s light! I mean, yarn isn’t that heavy, but it’s noticeably lighter than my other Baggallini bag–the Doctor’s Satchel, which I still love, mind you, but . . . this new bag is one, nice bag. And such a pretty shade of orange, too!

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