Project Update

I'm sure I left a few things off the list of projects last time, so while I can cross things off, I've got more to add. Maybe I should work something into the sidebar.

Last week, Yvette suggested that I try working on the Green Gable sweater on two circulars instead of one, and that this would save me a lot of the annoying scooting of yarn up over the join and down and around the cable. I'm using the needles I had on hand, so one is bamboo and one is plastic, but it's working wonderfully. I'm using the same technique as I did for the socks on two circulars, and progress is much faster now that I'm not spending (wasting) a ton of time moving stitches around. And, since the needles are different, there's no chance that I'll pick up the wrong one at the wrong time. So, Yvette, I owe you a big thank you! (Progress is still slow, but at least it's moving in the right direction. The big "take it off the needles and try it on" moment is just around the corner. However, I'm not sure I really want to KNOW if it fits -- if it doesn't, I'm not sure that I'll be finishing it, given that I'll have worked it to the armpits TWICE without success. There's also the fact that if I take it off the needles to try it on, I have to get all 458 stitches back ON the needles.Yuck.)

The new, very cute design project is finished, but will only fit a newborn. (I didn't swatch.) Wanna photo? How about a teaser:



More soon, once I have a pattern and some action shots (I need a newborn to model.).

Predictably, as I made it through the end of the year and the start of the summer, I picked up some sort of nasty cold. I'll be sidelined for a couple of days, which for me means coming in to teach and write, then taking long naps in the afternoon. It's not such a bad life, if you can manage with all the coughing.