Honestly, most of my vacations are like that. They are full of weddings (and the stress that somehow manages to be a part of that even if you are doing nothing but getting there and attending), working at my favorite chocolate shop, or cleaning/errands that don't get run the rest of the time I'm working.
This has been mostly the same. An out-of-state wedding, painting the bathroom, painting almost all of the white trim, cleaning (and more cleaning), attempting to wash the windows (and probably again later this weekend), rehearsal (including our first blocking rehearsal for Pour, oh pour, the pirate sherry) and even a little bit of knitting.
I'm still working on the Vortex Street Pullover. I'm at the octopus stage, where I am knitting all of the pieces together for the yoke. I have 2 skeins of yarn left (I just started one of the skeins last night), which should be more than enough for the cabled front piece, the rest of the yoke and the neck. If I manage to find some time to actually knit this weekend, then I should be able to finish it before Rhinebeck (will it be too warm for this sweater? No idea, so I'll probably have a tshirt to wear in the unlikely event I get too warm).
While I was traveling, I was working on a sock (picture will be forthcoming once I get around to pulling it out of the camera). Actually, I worked on it twice, because I dropped a stitch with a yarnover and just couldn't seem to find all of the pieces. It was quicker to just start over. I am somewhere in the gusset for the first sock, but I don't want to work on it until I have finished the sweater!
I've been thinking about knitting a lot lately, and my stashalong rules. I'm pretty sure that I should be changing them to a simple in-out arrangement. I tend to buy my yarn piecemeal, so a free day hardly ever involves more than one or two skeins of yarn. Since August I have knit up 6 skeins of yarn (only counted from finished projects): Picovoli, a pair of socks, and the Pi Shawl. I want to have enough earned skeins to buy a sweater's worth of yarn later this month, but I still need to buy yarn for the in-law presents. I'm hoping that finishing Vortex will be enough for that (the silliness of this kind of yarn math isn't lost on me, but I really do need to keep my stash at a constant while we're trying to keep the house uber neat!).
