Busywork

The regional shop hop (Quilters Quest '09) is going on right now -- my store has been part of this every year since we started in '99. I've been sitting and stamping passports as customers come through for the past three days ... and ringing up at the register to check customers out. In the down time, I am working on my second Patchwork of the Crosses block. I'm still working with scraps and I'm happy with the way it is coming out. :) 

By late afternoon my fingers were feeling rather pricked to bits (I'm making my block with English Paper Piecing which is pretty brainless ... easy to pick up and lay down ... but no thimble as I dislike them). I went next door and bought some pretty, soft alpaca yarn and started knitting my first Xmas gift (a nice warm neck scarf for my son-in-law who is allergic to wool:).

 

You might be able to see the scarf pattern in the photo -- it was a free download from Martha Stewart's website. I like the way the scarf tucks through itself so you don't have flapping ends. :) I have my fingers crossed that he is not also allergic to alpacas (don't know when he would have been exposed to those animals:).

Two more days to go with the Quest .. might get the POC block finished? :)