If you’ve been itching to get your fingers on some of The Verdant Gryphon’s new yarn, Mondegreen, the time is now!

Photo from The Verdant Gryphon website.

Remember, this is the lovely 60% BFL wool, 20% silk, 20% camel blend worsted weight yarn that I used for my Beribboned Hat design. (Which is on sale for 10% off on Ravelry for another 2 weeks with the code ‘yayseptember’, fyi.) It would work just as well for my free Beribboned Wrists pattern, too, which has been going around to various knitters through VG’s super fun Nomadic Knitting project. It has nice twist and density from the BFL, a lovely sheen from the silk, and softness from the camel that counteracts some of the wool’s potential scratchiness. It’s really, truly lovely. Since today is the first day this yarn is available, it will probably sell out quickly, so I’d jump on it if I were you (and not saving for Rhinebeck, sigh).  But fear not, it will be available for the next 6 months and there will be plenty of loveliness to go around.

Is there anything more exciting than lovely, delicious new yarn? Perhaps… I’m pretty psyched that my new kitten Darwin and older cat Calypso are finally getting along:

A tenuous peace.

We can haz friendly relashunz?

I’m quite proud of my kitties, actually. It took a full week but Calypso is tolerating him much better than before. Darwin still needs to learn some limits but he’s responding pretty well. Yay for peace!