Hooray for batteries! Some progress pics of the Alpaca Mother's Day scarf: In the first one, you can sort of tell how the P3tog stitch makes a little knobby bobble blackberry thingie (the color of the yarn makes it look like a blackberry to me). The 3rd picture is a better representation of the colors. They are a little lighter, more of a plum and mauve, but the bright Pacific Northwest sun (how many times has that ever been said?) today really washed out that 2nd pic.

I took the pics on top of the cooler because it is one of the only white things I could find, and also because I wanted to rub in the fact that I am going CAMPING this weekend! The weather in Eugene OR is supposed to be glorious this weekend, so hopefully we'll have a great time. I'm having a hard time deciding what to knit while I'm out this weekend. I can work on the scarf on the road, but I am not interested in having any alpaca/silk blends out in the wilderness. Something smaller and machine washable would be ideal. Maybe I'll start another pair of socks or some fingerless gloves. On second thought, itty bitty needles/stitches by firelight isn't really tootin' my horn, if you know what I mean...
After having safely gotten through row 7 Wednesday, I changed colors and knitted row 8. After knitting stitch 200 of 202, I realized that my stitch count was off. I should have had 4 stitches left, not 2. Sunnuvabitch. My heart began to palpitate. This is exactly where I had problems last time....tinking back to fix something and dropping stitches which subsequently cannot be picked up. I found the mistake, a P3tog which should have been a M3, all the way back on stitch 109. That means that I have to undo 91 stitches without dropping a single one (or doing anything else devastating). But I did it. I went all the way back, fixed the mistake, and knitted along, uneventfully reaching the end of the row with a perfect stitch count and no mistakes. I decided not to press my luck and stopped for the night.