The End of My Rope (Yarn)

With just 8 more rows of a sleeve plus the button bands and seaming left on my Tempest, I ran out of black! Luckily, my awesome friend Erica of Bigmouth Yarns has generously offered to send me her partial skein of it.

Until then, I've got other projects to work on. My husband's Christmas present, for one. On Wednesday night, I started on a Milkweed Shawl. This was my progress as of yesterday evening:

Ignore the orange lifeline. The yarn I'm using is Malabrigo Sock in the colorway Indiecita. This yarn makes me so happy. The colors remind me of summertime by a lake. Which is a great mental image when we're coming up on Winter!