What's going on today
Secret Pal!!!Today I got my first email from my Secret Pal for SP5! How exciting is that? Very very very exciting if you ask me! Speaking of my Secret Pal, I am working on my questionnaire to post. I am most of the way through with it, and with any luck it will be done tonight. It's not a difficult set of questions, it's just that I am actually planting a tomato plant right now and I came inside for drink of water and got distracted by Vogue Knitting, and then I had to piddle with knitting things for a minute or two and then I thought I needed to blog, and here I am, 45 minutes later... The tomato is still not finished. In other words, I've got an attention span problem that is being fed by the lovely weather.
I haven't gotten my secret pal assignment yet, but I bet it will be very very soon...
WIP Updates:
Turbo's Sweater
I finished up the underpanel of Turbo's sweater and I am stitching the two pieces together. I've noticed however, that the head opening is not quite as large as turbo's head, nor is it likely to stretch that far. Is this a reason to panic? Nope. As I learned in Sally Melville's knitting emergencies and disasters class, this is an opportunity to make a design element out of the problem area. So, rather than rip out that ribbing with the dastardly increases to add a little more width, I am going to leave the top inch or so open and use a button and loop or something cute to close it up. I don't know what it will be yet, but I know it will be quite lovely. I am actually quite excited about it, and can't wait to go scrubbing through my ridiculously large stash of buttons to find something cute.
The only sad thing about the sweater is that it is really heavy. Turbie won't be able to wear it until the fall without having a heatstroke. Oh well. I had such a fun time knitting it I will make another sweater for her, this time in a lighter weight yarn. I'm sure I've got something in my stash that will be just perfect.
Kyoto
In other news, I made a little progress on Kyoto today. The sleeve is about an inch longer.
Future WIPs and UFOs
I also read Vogue Knitting and found two things I want to knit. This is one:
And this is the other:
I've got the perfect yarn for it in my stash, and wonder of wonders, I have enough of the perfect yarn too! It's this groovy slightly metallic Karabella yarn I got on sale before Christmas. I am not planning to make that little flappy deal in the front though. I'm not sure what that is about, but it doesn't have my name written on it. No offense to anyone out there who loves that flappy deal. It's just not my thing is all.
2 Comments:
Well aren't you a little problem solver! I know how easy it is getting distracted by knitting when there's other work to do. OoOoOOPS! Should I be working right now? Can't wait to see the sweater on, hold her up so she doesn't fall over under the weight!
Those are cute wish list items...I like so many things in that Vogue Knitting mag...I've got to keep working so I can make s'more!
Nice sweaters and a most adorable doggie!
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