New and Sort of Improved

The new interation of the scratchy green sweater is done!

You don’t get any head (haha) because I had some seriously wacky hair going on when the picture was taken and if you’ve seen me first thing in the morning you know how wacky my hair can get. The sweater is a pretty straight forward EZ raglan sweater with some waist shaping thrown in for a closer fit. I’m pretty happy with this one, I wore it yesterday and today and will use any coldish weather as an excuse. It really softened up in the blocking wash and it gained some length from this picture so it’s really easy to wear. I threw it on after a wedding this weekend over a very thin dress and it was super comfy and looked really good. It looked really cute on my sister too!

For non Valentines Day G got me an orchid, I love it!

I’ve moved on to the mason dixon great absorba bathmat, made in log cabin style with some seriously chunky yarn (three strands of double worsted held together and knit on size 15s) .

Runagogo Total To Date: 67.5 miles!
I gotta say I love the way I feel and the other benefits (wink)

Playing Catch Up

Pictures of knitting have been thwarted by hours of catching up on reading, there will be more of this tomorrow but in the mean time, UPDATE on selfish knitting! I have finished the body of the recycled sweater and one sleeve done and the other sleeve is started so that is progressingy quickly, when it’s all done it’ll be a EZ style all in the round with raglan shaping (my favorite shaping for me). I’ll get pictures of it once it’s all on one needle and getting smaller by the inch. I’ve got some fun surprizes planned for the finishing on this sweater but you’ll have to stay tuned to find out what they are.

Runagogo Upadate: I’m passed the half way point on miles if not days!
52 miles year to date

The picture up top is one G took in Anza Borrego last weekend, it was a pretty inspiring landscape.

National Yiddish Day

Who knew that today was use your Yiddish day ?!
Well, thanks to Cara I did!
All I have to show for today are svey kleineke sveaters. Sadly I can’t figure out how to use another alpha bet on this here blog.
I got a little hooked on the instant gratification of the baby sweater, so I made two. Both are Elizabeth Zimmermann patterns. Check it out N, I used the Hannukah present you got me to do the first one.

I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do, they make me smile everytime I catch them out of the corner of my eye.