Knitting rainbows

My friend, other Marcia and I made another trip to Knitters' Heaven last week.  It's too bad St. Peter let me in because I bought another 3 skeins of yarn which I don't need.  But it looked so pretty and I just knew it would be fun to knit--what with all those colorful stripes appearing to surprise me along the way.  It's Cascade Yarn's Pinwheel and the colorway is Rainbow.

When Mr. Gadget and I were at the Calcondo last, I knitted some preemie blankets for the local hospital as part of a charity effort.  The pattern called for them to be 12" x 18" and I was sure that was a mistake.  Much too small I assumed.  But no.  That was just right.  So when I saw the Rainbow yarn I decided to make some more to take along with me on my next trip.

The bowl, which also kinda looks rainbow-ish, is a project I did with Big City Girl a while back at the local paint-your-own pottery place.  They were out of the big yarn bowl thingies, but they did have these small snack serving bowls.  It works great for keeping a ball of yarn from rolling all over the floor.  I'm still a wind-your-own-ball gal.  I have one of those fancy winders with a crank, but I seem to always get an error message.

So Mr. Gadget and I have recently returned from a wonderful cruise (big surprise, I know!)  We did all of our flying ahead of the cruise (Los Angeles to Buenos Aires) and ended up back in Los Angeles just a 20-minute taxi ride from the Calcondo--and without jet lag!  I usually don't buy many souvenirs, since I'm now in the scaling-down part of my life.  But it was impossible to pass up the beautiful textiles in beautiful colors that just sort of reached out and grabbed me in Chile and Peru.  I will share some of my treasures in the next post.