What luck!

Today I was doing some errands in a nearby town and stop in at a small yarn shop, the woman there mentioned that there was a new yarn shop that opened in the next town over. I happened to stop in and fell in love with the yarns they had, the wonderfully friendly staff and the overall feel. What a great shop! I picked up a book "Basic Patterns"?? something (can't remember the title) that has all sorts of basic patterns written for different sizes AND different gauges. So basically you knit up a swatch, measure it to get the gauge, then use the pattern to figure out how to knit it up. Awesome! As someone who can rarely knit to gauge, this a true blessing!

I also picked up some wonderful yarn that is going to be some mittens and it looks great so far. I'm even doing the ribbing for the first mitten and so far, it is actually going well.

Lots of yarn (well for me, anyway) and projects planned, in case we loose power, I should be all set (except for keeping the kids happy without our usual technology).