In between work and sleep I managed to finish a sleeve, and thus the SWDR is finally all knitted up, blocked and ready for seaming. I think I enjoy the seaming least out of the whole process, especially now that ratios will have to be calculated before seaming in the cap sleeves. I'm saving that for the weekend. In the meantime after casting off the last sleeve I immediately casted on the Ribby Cardi, without swatching. Look at me, renegade knitter. This morning however as I clomped in my snow boots on the way to work, bitter wind howling and snow drifts swirling, I decided to start the other Rebecca chunky merino wool instead, while we're still enjoying this 20 degree weather.

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Still almost there

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Errrrr. Planet Earth rotates too quickly. Three whole days at my disposal and still no sweater. I want to start a new project already.

Hmm so what's going to be next in the queue - Ribby Cardi or Angelina jacket? I'm thinking of turning the Ribby Cardi into a Ribby Sweater mostly so I don't have to deal with the zipper bit. But I don't know if this means I won't be able to fit it over my large head. Has anyone knit the Cardi as a sweater?

The Drapey Shoulder Sweater might be put on hold for a little bit longer.

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Almost there

Monday, February 21, 2005

The other day I was poking around the garden picking up random litter that had blown in our yard and had my first sign of Spring: tips of daffodils and tulips pushing their way just past the surface. Huzzah! Spring is coming...Or is it? Snowing cats and dogs now, again.

sweater front all soft and dreamy in the sun

I'm still working on the SWDR. It's dragging because after a few rows, my hands turn to concrete on fire. I finished the front. The neckshaping scares me. I never quite understand the directions. For this pattern I think they gave right-side directions for knitting from the edge to the neck edge/center, even though the right side should have been from the neck edge/center to edge. So I flipped the pattern directions mirrorwise and it seemed to turn out ok. No holes, purls and knits where they should be. The next thing that I'm not looking forward to is seaming the sleeves. Ooo. Spooky.

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It's a good thing

Friday, February 18, 2005

I thank God for this Friday in particular over all other Fridays because

I just found out the office is closed on Monday.
There are 3 NetFlix movies in the queue:
Season 2 of Coupling (original British version, not flaccid American remake)
Vanity Fair and
Eternal Sunshine of the Blah blah blah
The office is closed on Monday.
The office is closed on Monday.
The office is closed. On Monday.

I see a finished sweater in my future.

The price of the Kobe steaks last night were a good 10% higher than last time. I'm not surprised. How many barrels of oil does it take process a 10oz steak, and then fly it over from Japan all the way to the East coast? However much, the kobe was worth it, it's worth aaaaaall of it.

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Happy Birthday to my golden goose

Thursday, February 17, 2005

To properly celebrate D's coming into this world, we will eat steak. We will be all kinds of irresponsible while we do it. I don't know if you're allowed to bitch about SUVs out of one side if your mouth, and then eat steak with the other. But I'll do it anyways, because there are always exceptions aren't there, especially when talking about a marblized, beer-mashed, succulent Kobe steak.

So today on the way to work I walked by a Porsche SUV idling in the parking lot. I resisted the urge to smear ripe feces all over it, which I had at the ready for just this occasion.

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Check out my diagonal ribs

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

I haven't knitted in the past couple of days. Busy at work, trying to get to bed sooner in order to conquer the whole 'early to bed, early to rise' battle. Anyway this past weekend I started the SWDG (sweater with diagonal ribs) from Rebecca 28, using Lion Brand Kool Wool and finished the back.

Back of SWDG. The color is actually more moss than camel.

Love the diag ribbing, and the yarn-overs near the edge. I changed the placement of the double decreases, during mid-knitting, by just a stitch on each side. Plus I think that's how it looks in the photo. The pattern was knitting up something differerent. Also with such chunky yarn like the Kool Wool, and with the previous two rows also containing decreases right below, the original placement of the double dec looked really messy, all big and bumpy .

The Kool Wool is knitting up soft, spongy, and very springy. Boing boing.

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