I hope everyone on this side of the Atlantic had a good Thanksgiving and that everyone else had a good week. John and I just saw my parents and my brother and his fiance on their respective ways back home. We had a lovely Thanksgiving with a house full of people.

I got my first trip to the Museum of Contemporary Art here in Chicago and we also took a trip down to the Science and Industry Museum in my old stomping ground of Hyde Park. Mom and I also found time to try out one new knitting store -- Tangled Web in Oak Park. This store packs so many good things into a small space and has very friendly people inside. Their selection is incredible -- in terms of both yarns and colors.

I was pretty restrained on this trip, but I did manange to find worsted weight "manly" dark colored soft superwash yarn and a pattern for making socks. I'm going to set off on a new knitting adventure: double pointed needles. Any good suggestions for working with them? I must admit to being a little bit intimidated by them.

Probably the only "bad news" of the week/weekend is that I ripped out my felted bag and am going to start over. It just seemed like it was coming out too tight and I was worried that it wasn't going to felt well. Since I was playing around with "correct continental knitting style" I made more mistakes than I think I should have. I know it will be felted, but it was driving me crazy.

I bought a bigger pair of circular needles from Tangled Web and am going to start tackling that operation again tonight!