knitting update for saturday!

this is damask, the picture doesn't do the yarn justice at all, it is much softer in person, more like impressionist paintings then it looks here. i like this pattern and i like this young designer. she has you cast on the bazillion stitch edging and do that first..... then you knit it down to the top (sorta kinda) i like this yarn too....it's ella rae #117.

i have an 'interesting only to knitters' story about the yarn.....i'd forgotten the color number of this ella rae, it was in stash and i remembered i had it but not the color number. i saw something on ravelry in ella rae #117, and went nuts online looking for who had it...... then i did stash inventory, as part of spring cleaning, and found out that I HAD IT! ( yes i really do like those colors......) however i wasn't sure if there was going to be enough to do damask in it..... so jen kindly went to our favorite yarn store in the valley where i got the original skein, and found TWO MORE in the same color/dyelot and picked them up for me!!! so now i am going to have damask and i think i will knit a hat to match..how about THAT? i really do need to make some winter hats with the leftovers of the shawls/scarves.... maybe something interchangeable? sorta of like a knitted hat band on maybe an easy fleece or felt hat?

something that matches my winter coats.....so most likely in charcoal or dark aubergine. 

i am thinking and have been thinking i better do this, as i am probably not going to stop knitting shawlettes as the lace is addicting...... and with my rather bohemian taste in yarn colors......this is the best solution cause lately i been looking like a bag lady with my color work hats, and not matching scarves......
oh and i desperately need a sweater stone......that's what i get for knitting with merino huh?
(next time i go down the valley)
so it's a lazy saturday morning here..... bernie made me coffee, and his coffee is most excellent.....so i linger over it....(it's ALL HIS FAULT)
i am also having a few issues with the computer....mostly java script incompatibility... which is either shutting the computer down inappropriately or not allowing it to wake up at all- i think i got most of that straightened out now
i tell you, i don't like win7, i didn't like vista either.... i am so very tempted to go to mac or linux.....
i am also thinking of getting a new tower, as this one is about two years old now..... i have some serious guts in it..... fast chip, tons of memory.....but maybe all things considered it would be better to upgrade sooner rather then later?
it's a systemax, it has a very loud fan in it but i like that it's made in america........ dell and gateway aren't anymore. ( when i got this i purposely got made in america)
bernie wants me to get a flat monitor for this (i will this summer) and instead of upgrading, get a lap top. i was thinking more a net book...... but he may have a point. oye i don't want to deal with computer stuff right now...i just want to get the kitchen settled.
(and maybe a roof over the current deck pending expansion)
ok everyone, i do have to go now......even though the coffee is wonderful-the last cup is going in the travel mug cause i have to get a move on now
bernie is going to run for the mail....
but chores need to be started
have a wonderful saturday