I'm finishing up a freelance assignment and then I'll get right to work on the list of worsted weight sock links. Also, I hope to have an actual pair of socks to show soon but I know that July is always my worst month for completed FOs.

Today we attended the Lavender in the Village festival in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. Most of it took place at Los Poblanos which includes an inn and one of the farms for our CSA Los Poblanos Organics. In the distance you can see folks picking their own bunches of lavender. It smelled wonderful! We also managed to get to another festival location, Casa Rondena Winery, for some lavender sangria.



In the center is Farmer Monte, the mastermind for our wonderful year-round CSA. I was late to his farm tour but I believe he said that we now have 1800 members and that he employs 15-18 farmers.



One of the most popular attractions at Los Poblanos was this beautiful display of water lilies.




The local House Rabbit rescuers manned a booth at the festival also. Thank you Criss, Cathy, and Clara and all the other volunteers for all your hard work this summer capturing rabbits, fostering rabbits, driving rabbits across the country, fundraising, etc.

Like most knitters I'm influenced by the colors around me. It has been unusually wet this summer and my yard as seen below is unusually green for this time of year. I often dream of living somewhere really wet and green and I imagine myself knitting projects in all sorts of lovely grayish heathers.




This sort of red is not common around here but I think it would be a fun color combo for a project along with some light blue and gray. I really love the section in Alice Starmore's Fair Isle book where she shows colorwork projects based on photos. I love that idea but I suspect it would be much easier to do if you had a huge yarn color palette selection like she does with her Shetland yarns.



This photo shows the colors I associate with New Mexico. Our skies really are this brilliant blue (there is a local paint shade called Taos blue that is close to this color) and the intense sun washes out everything but the sandy browns. This is the newly renovated and sandblasted St. Francis church in Santa Fe.

Here's a pair of basic socks - two worsted weight yarns knit together with 32 sts on size 7 (I think) dpns. I'm bored with these socks though so I started another pair of the Log Cabin Socks from Handknit Holidays. I really hope to update the scrunchie sock pattern and get you that list of worsted weight sock patterns soon.

So far I've sent $210.83 to the New Mexico rabbit rescuers - that is half my May Ravelry earnings along with all of my Amazon and Lulu earnings for May. (Obviously with such enormous earnings I'm right on track to becoming a millionaire by 2010!!!) All my patterna nd booklet sale earnings through the end of July will go to them - I figure it will be around $400 more.

Here's a KRQE article and video on the rescue which says their expenses so far are over $3600:

NM Woman Hoards 334 Hopping Bunnies