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YESSSSSS!
It is finished! Ok, finished, but unblocked...
I cast off the final stitch last evening around 9:30.
Quick photo courtesy of Paul - better photos coming when I get it blocked out. Maybe the morning of the fourth, or maybe this weekend. (I have to get my worktable cleared off to make room to pin it out!)
We made it to Temperance River State Park Thursday evening around 9:30. Luckily, we got a campsite. Our campsite was in our favorite part of the park, the lower campground. You can hear Lake Superior waves falling on the shore from every campsite. We didn't get a site right on the water, but we were only a short walk away.
This is the view of the lower campground from out on the rocks, across the Temperance River.
I worked on the Paisley Lace shawl a bit in the truck on the way up, and started doing the picot bindoff at the campsite. It's a very pretty bindoff, but definitely not "knit-in-the-truck" material. Bind off 3 stitches, cast on 3, bind them off - continue. As the shawl ended with 816 stitches around, it's a bit putzy. I've got one half of the stitches done. Should finish this week!
So, because I couldn't work on the shawl on the 5 hour ride home, I finished my Lorna's Laces socks! To recap - Lorna's Lace's in Purple Club Shepherd Sock. Generic toe up, short row heel on 64 stitches. Foot on size 0, leg on size 1 needles. K3, P1 ribbing throughout. Cast on April 15, finished June 24. (boy, that's a LONG time - I have to remind myself they're just my carry along project)
I started my next carry along - I'm going to make socks out of the sundyed superwash merino I just finished spinning. I cast on 64 stitches on size 2 needles and began K2,P2 ribbing. I may rip out and go fewer stitches - It will reveal itself to me, no doubt!
I bought this cool stoneware mug at the campstore. I love stoneware! Every morning when we're camping, we get up, make coffee and cocoa and go drink it, sitting quietly in the prettiest place we can walk to - usually overlooking water somewhere. We carry a small thermos, and drink out of our stoneware mugs. Now we have a cool mug for the Girl of the House (GotH).
Speaking of GotH, here she is on one of our rock climbing treks this weekend.
Friday, we did the hiking club trail, and meandered about on the hills by the Temperance river. It was lovely and cool, just mid 60s.
Saturday, we boulder hopped down the shore for about a mile. It was cool again, mid 60s.
Sunday, we boulder hopped up the shore for a half mile or so. Just in the 50s.
When we left, it was 58 degrees in our campground. We got on the road around noon, and within 30 miles, it was 85 degrees! We stopped 2 places and did some geocaching. I imagine we looked a bit strange getting out of the truck wearing our sweatshirts and jeans, the first time we stopped...
A quick photo of one of the fabulous breakfasts Paul makes for us every morning. Here is hashbrowns, eggs on top, with cheese and salsa. He makes some great Texas toast on the grill, and this day we had bacon. A plateful, eh!? We generally just have a snack for lunch, and then he grills up some equally great suppers.
We had a terrific time, everything went so smooth. Temperance is one of our favorite parks, and we're planning to head back in September.
We've been on the run lately. I was on call last weekend. I work in the OR of the local hospital, and every seventh weekend I'm on call for emergency surgeries from Friday afternoon til 7 Monday morning. These could be c-sections, appendectomies, bone fractures, and several other things. So I have to stick pretty close to home - my required response time to the hospital is 20 minutes. It was actually a pretty quiet weekend, I only had to go in to work once. Gotta love that!
Girl of the House (GotH) has us running during the weekday evenings. Soccer practice twice a week, and games twice a week. By the time we run all over, there only seems to be time for supper and then off to bed. Not much time for fiber...
Here's my Paisley Lace Shawl, waiting patiently in the basket. I have done a few more rows here and there. I finished the border, and now have to begin the picot bind-off. Probably won't get to it til Sunday evening, though!
It's been so hot here, upper 80s with dew points in the 60s. Terribly tropical for Minnesota! I haven't been running outside, and while I can do the treadmill, I really dislike it. So, between being on call, and the heat, I skipped a whole week. I did go for a run today after work. 6.3 miles, very slowly. Run 10 minutes, walk a minute - that was the only tolerable way in this heat. I think the dog didn't mind the walk breaks, either! 40.3 miles this month. Now my average is falling! Last week I had 34 miles for the month, so from almost 5 miles a day, I've fallen to less than 3. Gotta catch up!!!
It helps that I can run in the arb. Temp has to be 5 degrees cooler in there. Here's a picture of one of my paths. I took this in mid May - it's even greener now.
Little Chip continues to be a pretty good little guy. I think he is managing to train his people to let him out often enough - not many wet messy puppy accidents.
I am making progress on the Paisley Lace Shawl.
I'm currently on row 14 of 20 rows in the paisley border. Then I'll do the picot edging and be done!!! There are over 720 stitches in each row, it takes me roughly 20 minutes per row, so it'll still be a while. I just keep on truckin'...
While I do (really) have a bad case of startitis, this shawl has been on my needles since last fall. I pick it up, work on it for a week or so, then pick up something else.
These new projects I seem to be able to see through completion.
Now I must finish this paisley lace shawl.
It is the Paisley Lace Shawl by Evelyn A. Clark, from Interweave Knits, spring 2005. It's a simple to remember garter stitch lace pattern. See the little paisleys? 
I'm using a lovely lace weight from Joslyn's Fiber Farm. It is Angel Hair in the colorway 'Plumes'. (In real life, there is more purple in the yarn. Why is it that sometimes colors just don't photograph well?!) I picked this yarn up at the MN Knitter's Guild Yarnover in spring 2006.
I'm doing extra repeats - I want a bigger shawl than the pattern specifies.
I finished clearing off my work table, only to discover that it isn't wide enough to block a square shawl. So Saturday, I was doing the laundry, and blocked the shawl on the sheetless bed. Hard to get high enough to get a good blocking picture - we have a canopy on the bed. It blocked out to 51" square. (Love those blocking wires!)
Here's a picture this morning on the deck. I'd have a picture of me modeling, but I still had my jammies on. I used 5 ounces (out of 8) of Angel Hair by Joslyn's Fiber Farm in the Plumes colorway. A bit over 1000 yards, if my math is correct.
Last night I finished my spindle spun socks. They definitely don't match, but I still love 'em. Cuff up, 2x2 ribbing. They are long enough I can fold over a cuff. That'll probably be the way I wear them.
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