Lighting a Fire

Y’know, February is over halfway over, and I am just now getting around to mentioning project spectrum. I love Lolly’s idea, I’ve always had fun playing along before, but this year I just can’t seem to get myself crafting in the proper colors. But i did catch a bit of firey orange this weekend.

Those are the flowers at my friend Sarah’s wedding. And here’s Sarah with Christer–they were good friends in college, housemates a few times and physics majors together. And somewhere in that friendship she managed to help introduce me and Christer so, yeah, we like her.

It was a fabulous party, held in a beautiful and simple hall on a beach. But i have no pictures to share of Sarah and her new wife, because the lighting, while dark and festive, was not liking my camera. I have a whole roll (i can still call a couple dozen pictures a “roll” even if it’s digital, right?) of backlit, blurry, red-eyed, shiny-bra pictures–and none of them does justice to what a good looking couple Sarah and Ash really are. So assuming that they send out some pictures sometime, and assuming that i ever get my butt in gear to make them a wedding quilt (yes, i’m making them a quilt and no, i haven’t started yet, and no, i don’t really know how to quilt) then i’ll share pictures of both together.

We stayed with another friend from college–the one who got this blanket/rug (the one halfway down the page) two years ago at her wedding. She just found out last week that the baby she is expecting this summer is actually two babies. Twins! So there was lots of talk of babies and plans and a bit of freaking out. But for me, a thousand miles away, I’m just excited that there’ll be double the knitting.

Flying out to Seattle and back in one weekend made for lots of knitting time. But today I am a bit sick of it all, and tired, what with the time changes and travel and being social. I’ve got about five projects that are all this-close to being finished, but i’m dragging my feet on the final details. Give me a few days to recover and I’ll try and post about them. Oh, and not a one of them has a spec of red or pink or orange in them.