More Snow and Vampires

I’m not sure why I find vampire novels so appealing. I read the Twilight series over a year ago. I found them rather disturbing especially because the books are targeted towards young teenagers. A friend and I then stumbled upon the Southern Vampire Mystery Series (Sookie Stackhouse Mystery Series). I found the series light and funny without the disturbing teenage control undertones that bothered me in Twilight. I just finished the recently released Dead in the Family, #10.

A fun read and inspiration for my newest knitting project: Vampire Bliss.

Since I have been doing so well with stash busting (there is now free room in my yarn bin), I am taking a break. I am also having sweater withdrawal and knitting is supposed to be fun.

I fell in love with this design right away, it is a wonderful summer knit suitable for air conditioned offices. The cable chart is a disaster, there were multiple mistakes. The chart (aka colored squares) is also difficult to read. I created my own chart by zooming into the pattern photo and drawing it on graph paper. I would highly recommend doing this to visualize the cable pattern. I e-mailed the author and the pattern author has since fixed the chart but it is still hard to read.

Some more snow photos because there may not be too many more storms this year, right? I love the contrast between the snow and the blue sky. I love high altitude Colorado.