Now when summer is almost over, I am planning on blogging more regularly. Apart from the general summer busyness at work, the main reasons for my unplanned blogging break were vacation traveling to Ireland and focusing on designing. 
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While in Cork city, I visited a few yarn stores but haven`t bought any yarn. I discovered only one place that resembles LYS as we know it here but it was selling mostly commercially available yarns like Rowan and Debbie Bliss. Other places I went to were more craft stores or fabric stores with a small yarn section.  I have brought a small knitting souvenir though, buttons from the Cork button factory.



While on vacation, I had plenty time to knit and even finish couple projects. For my  flight knitting, I casted on Gust by Anne Hanson in Plucky Knitter lace weight cashmere from my stash. It was the perfect traveling project as it provided me with hours of knitting and took hardly any room in my handbag.  The pattern is very intuitive and I memorized it pretty fast and did not need to look into the chart.  The scarf is all finished and if I could find my blocking wires, it would even be blocked (they are nowhere to be seen but my closet is now organized).




Working on Gust at this lovely thatched cottage tea house in Killarney national park.



The other project I finished while I was in Ireland is my new cardigan design called Blarney after Blarney village near which we stayed. I am still working on the pattern but hopefully it should be up soon.




 I have been meaning to try my hand at designing for a while and after many encouragements from my family and friends, I finally gave it a go this spring. Besides working on patterns for this blog, I have sent  my  first submission to Knitty. I can`t say much about the design yet, only that I am incredibly excited to be a part of Knitty`s Fall issue.