Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Mouthwatering

Ok, seriously? I liked the yarn Liv picked for her sweater. I legitimately did. I thought it would be cute on her, if not something that I would have picked myself.

So, on Saturday I’m going on a train with 30+ other knitters to Portland to hop yarn shops and knit in company. It will be tremendously fun, and I’ll have the opportunity to get a lot of knitting done. The only project I have in progress are my cable socks.

(We’re not speaking of the purple gloves. They WILL get finished at some point, but right now, I’m pretending they don’t exist. The only time I acknowledge their existence is when I’m hunting like mad for my size 2 double points and it finally comes to me that they’re in the purple gloves. Then I grumble, make do with something else, and forget again).

Anyway, I bought yarn to make Liv’s sweater awhile ago and decided to swatch it today, to hopefully get it ready to knit on the train. And it is swatching beautifully. I was surprised. I showed Nate, and he was “wow-ed”. It’s gorgeous. The color is mouthwatering. I’m excited.

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I wish you could see it in person.

I have to mess with the pattern to make it fit her, as it’s an adult pattern, so I have some work ahead of me.

Now I’m off to do laundry so I have my choice of things to wear on Saturday, and so we have clothes, really.

Remember the frog? I took a cute picture of him yesterday and thought I’d share.

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