Mink Stole

The Mink Stole progresses steadily. I am on schedule again after falling behind in July. I have marked the chart with where I have to be in order for it to be done in time for my December knitting cruise.

And then in an incredible stroke of good luck I found a dress on the clearance rack that will work perfectly (the color of the mink yarn is somewhere between the two photos).

Now all I have to do is find some shoes :D

Back Again

Auntie's turn for the worse ended on May 11th when she passed away.  

I left for the New England and Canada knitting cruise on May 15th.  

My surreal spring has been one of profound loss sandwiched by two great trips.

So, here are a few photos from the cruise, which turned out to provide some time for me to decompress.  

Rose the Gypsy took good care of me.

Bar Harbor, Maine:

Lucy Neatby's House (Halifax, Nova Scotia):

The cemetery where some of the Titanic victims are buried (still Halifax):

Handmaiden hand-dyed yarns out to dry (also Halifax):

An exhibit in Halifax that opened up for us:

Some purchases - Rose the Gypsy leans toward softer colors, I go for the over-dyed ones:

Decompressing in The Crow's Nest:

Barry from Boston in the piano bar:

Belfast Mini-Mills on Prince Edward Island:

Monkey towel in our stateroom:

Quebec City (the coldest place we visited!):

The Boat:

I knit a bit too, and got a shawl finished (ok, the ends are not woven in, but it's still finished):

That's it for now.  Not sure where I'll go next, or when ... 

The Boat

"It doesn't look any bigger than the Mauritania!"

That bump on the far end is a whirlpool.

The children's pool was pretty amazing.

The shopping area was decked out for Christmas.

There was a really weird bar with a medieval theme that was called The Catacombs (WTF?).

Rose the Gypsy made me drink in the middle of the day… such a bad influence.

We decided that next time we'll schedule more balcony knitting time.

Yes, we plan on there being a next time.

I call this one, Still Life, Poolside:

Rumor has it there's a person on the ship who carves watermelons - s/he doesn't have any other job tasks.  Just carve watermelons.

Does the humidity make my hair look funny?

The gal in charge of keeping our cabin tidy made us a dog out of towels, and then the next day a monkey.  She said the dog is great 'cause he doesn't poo on the bed, and that to care for the monkey you just have to give him a banana.

I love the ocean.

It's nice to have mail when you get home too.

Did I mention we saw an aerial show, an ice show, a comedian, we went to the piano bar and also saw a stage production of Saturday Night Fever?  It was tons of fun.  All of it.