yet another baby blanket

Once more I am working on a baby blanket.  I feel like I have spent most of my crochet/knit career working on baby blankets.  At least this one is a challenge in that it is a cable knit baby blanket.  When I snagged the pattern at Michaels (it was one of those freebie ones they hang up in the yarn aisle), I seriously wasn't planning on ever really using it.  A friend had previously taught me to cable knit but I was pretty sure I could never do it on my own.  But I'm now about twenty rows in and while it doesn't look quite like the picture on the pattern, it doesn't look bad.  I did cave and buy actual cable needles.  Must faster than simply placing the stitches on a straight needle like I had been doing.

SAFF (Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair) is coming up next month and a friend and I are planning on heading back up.  Last year I took about $75 in cash and thought that would be plenty of spending money.  Ha!  The bad thing about the fair is that it makes me a yarn snob.  It's hard to go back to the local craft shops to pick up acrylic yarn after you have tasted the pleasures of real wool.  And the spinning wheels?  I'm surprised I wasn't helping my friend try to get one in her trunk.  I think it would be amazing to learn to spin, but I can just see the look on dear hubby's face if I showed up with one.

Since I've been getting hyped on the coffee I've been sipping while typing this, I think I'll go work on more knitting projects now.