knitting in the dark

i've placed ester on hold for the moment--after adding the arms and tripling the length of the fabric to be cabled, i'm a bit daunted. but more importantly, i'm working on a gift for my favorite aunt, the airy scarf from last-minute knitted gifts. i needed a swift knit, as her birthday is in two weeks; and the airy scarf is simple and elegant. i'm using spring-green rowan kidsilk (leftover from the legwarmers from the same book--i wear them all the time).

i'm still ambivalent about working with mohair. i find myself doing it often--most recently for this wrap, which i planned to wear at my wedding last october. i didn't make it in time--the day arrived with only four more inches to go. but i had also changed my dress to a flowy, brown-and-turquoise paisley farrah fawcett dress, so it wouldn't have worked anyway. so now, six months later, i still have four more inches to go. what to do with an all-white, mohair wrap? lovely but totally impractical.

the power in the house went out yesterday evening during a loud thunderstorm...there was just enough light left that i was able to pull back a curtain, train the light on the needles, and knit for an hour or so. i felt like a puccini heroine in a garrett, working by the light of a tiny candle...