Ah hah!!

You have to do the cable between the increases!! Ah hah! Ah hah!!

I feel relaxed

Finally. What a relief to get Dad squared away at the hospital. I ran errands and then just cooked and relaxed and watched football last night. Oh, and worked a bit more on my first Fetching. I'm nearly done with the first one. I am little concerned about picking up the stitches for the thumb. I knit them on waste yarn as instructed but used very thin waste yarn. Oh well, I'll just jump in. I'm sure it'll work out fine.

I also charted what I have been trying to do with that raglan Noro sweater I'm winging. After charting it out a couple times I see that it's not really possible to do what I am envisioning. So, I think what might work is to p3 k2 p3 starting one stitch before the increase or one stitch after it (only on the body stitches, not the sleeves) and then every six rows do a twisted stitch on the k2, which should give it the appearance of a cable. At least I hope so. I don't have to have to rip it out a 3rd time. And I want to get this going so I can take another run at the Ogee Tunic.

It was pouring rain this morning. Shadow came down for a doggie date today - A's wife brought her down at 6:15 am right in the middle of a downpour! She was soaked but she and Tink went romping through the house. It'll be good for Tink to have company all day and the same for Shadow.

A football football football weekend

It was a wonderful football weekend! Omar took me to the Husky game on Saturday. They played Fresno State and won! For the first time in years the Huskies have won two games at home! They are 2 and 1. This is huge for this program after the years of suckage. The stadium was almost as loud as Qwest Field. We just had such a fun time!

And yesterday was the season opener for the Seahawks. They won too. My left ear is still aching from the noise. The guy sitting next to me was on full obnoxious mode - must have been drunk because I don't remember him being that obnoxious last season. Anyway, he kept whistling! You know, that high pitched whistle that makes your ears ring? I traded places with Amie for the second half. I couldn't take it. Plus I had a bad sinus thing going on so I was fighting a headache. Fighting it with beer. ;-) I won.

My nephew spent the evening (and the night, I guess) with my dad and I just relaxed at home and tried to do some knitting while watching more football. I am just stymied with the cables along the raglan increases. I'm going to have to rip it out again because they still don't look right! They don't look like cables. I think that I should have charted it out and that's what I'm going to do next. If I can see the stitches on a graph I'll be better able to plot the traveling cable. I am figuring that my problem is that I'm starting the purl stitch before the 4 stitch cable one stitch too close to the raglan increases. If I start it out 2 or even 3 that might fix the problem. Again, I'll have to look at a graph. So I was wanting some instant gratification. I started a pair of "Fetching" on two circular needles rather than the DPNs. Looking good so far. Man, it goes fast!

Taking off at noon to take Dad to the hospital. I will feel much better once I get him there and under some professional care. Then I can take a deep breath. I mean one that's not a sigh.

And lastly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my Secret Pal 8, Baa Bonny Belle

Not much of either ...

Neither knitting nor ranting. Things are just bizarre right now. Work = crazy. Personal life = crazy X 2. I am just SO thankful my nephew came back when he did. Yesterday the sweet boy saved my sanity by driving my dad to get his pre-op blood work and EKG and then taking him to the lawyer's office to sign some papers. It was a huge load off my mind. I am still very nervous but I'm trying to put things in perspective. It's got to be ten times worse for Dad.

I love having two doggies but when I got an hour to relax last night and knit ... well anyone with pets will tell you that knitting and doggie affection do not mix! I took the doggie love. Who can blame me?

And they slept!

Yay! The doggies slept like they had been playing all day ... which of course they probably had! I was very thankful we didn't have another restless night like Tuesday night. I only woke up because it was raining so hard! Pouring! The dogs had taken about half of the dog toys outside last night and so I had a yard full of soggy stuffed animals and tug toys. I love having two dogs around though.

There was no knitting yesterday except for the hour at lunchtime with my knitting ladies. My nephew surfaced after a few months fishing in Alaska and he's staying around for a while and staying with me for the time being! I love having him around. He's sweet and funny and loves my cooking. When I asked him what he wanted for dinner last night, saying I'd cook him whatever he wanted, all he said was "Shell, everything you cook is great. Just no fish!" So I cooked up a couple steaks ... a huge treat for me ... and we watched football and South Park and Family Guy episodes I had recorded for him on the DVR. Now that's entertainment!! Today he's going to take Dad around on some pre-op errands. I hope. His cell phone isn't operating yet and I don't have a land line at home to call him so I am hoping he remembered to set his phone alarm.

As I said it was raining hard last night and this morning as well. But as luck would have it, it pretty much stopped at 7:30 when I got on my bike to ride to work. I was very grateful because I hate wearing those stupid rain pants. Not only do they look ugly but they're uncomfortable when it's the least bit warm. Anyway, I got onto the campus and was about half way through when my tire started making a strange noise and I got off the bike - flat tire. Normally that wouldn't be a problem because there is a bike shop here on campus but they're closed until fall quarter starts, which isn't until the 25th of September. So. I'm screwed. No phone to call Omar to have him come pick me up. Maybe I can get my bike to the shop down the street .... I'll make a call. Keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't start pouring rain again.

The dogs must be crazy

OR ... My adventures in doggie sitting. Last night Tink & I welcomed Shadow into our little home for the rest of the week. Shadow is another terrier - I can't quite remember which - but she's just a little taller than Tink, smaller head, brown, rough coat. Anyway, a sweetie. She plays with Tink quite a lot because her "dad" works with me and he comes by to visit and let the dogs play often. Also Tink stayed with her while I was up at Steve and Ginny's last weekend, so they are used to each other and love to play. Their dynamic is a little different than Tink and Jasmine, though. With them Jasmine is definitely the more submissive. With Tink and Shadow it's less obvious. While they're both a bit submissive I think in this instance Tink is the "bottom" usually, but it switches back and forth. So, we got ready for bed and I put Tink on the bed, then Shadow. Then Tink jumped off. Then Shadow jumped off. This went on for a couple more rounds and then it looked like Shadow squatted like she was peeing! I didn't see anything obvious, as in a puddle on the duvet but as I was looking I wasn't paying attention to what Tink was doing. THEN I looked over at Tink who was in a piddle squat and really letting go! I mean..... she was really going! WTF??!! I yanked the duvet off the bed, hoping that it hadn't soaked through to the down comforter or worse yet, the feather bed. whew! Dodged a bullet there but .. my duvet!! It's dry clean only. I could not believe my eyes! What was that about?? I have no idea.

After I stopped screaming we tried again and I got them to calm down for a while, but Tink still was up and down and off and on and under the bed. I picked up a bone in the living room and put it away, thinking that maybe she was distracted by a treat. Like she didn't want Shadow to get it or something. She didn't really calm down until after midnight. I am hoping that tonight won't be a repeat performance. I'm draggin' today.

AND I got wet coming into work as well. Rain. Well, really kind of a dense mist, but wet all the same. I changed from my shorts into my long pants after I went outside, it was coming down that hard. I am wearing my brown Green Gable sweater today with a light blue suit. Looks good. I washed in in the machine on the "hand wash" cycle and it came out beautiful! That funny spot in the front though, where I thought I had dropped and stitch and made one and then went back ... well, it still kind of shows up, but not so much as before. Hopefully a couple more trips through the washer and it'll be fine.

What with all the doggie excitement I didn't do much knitting last night. A few more rows on the Noro sweater. I need to take a couple more deep breaths before I tackle my Ogee Tunic again. Now that I'm pretty sure what I did wrong I'm not so scared. Maybe I'll just cast on 20 stitches and try the motif again to make positive sure I've got it. I can't stand the frustration or pain of doing it wrong again. I scanned the charts from the book yesterday and blew them up a bit before printing them. One of the ladies in my Wednesday afternoon knitting group suggested coloring each code block a different color - the cable backs and cable fronts and twisted ... they're just too hard to see, what with the only difference being a line slanting one way or another. I HATE those charts. I would be happy to just have written out instructions and I was thinking of translating these into written ones but she suggested the coloring approach and it might work. I'll give it a try anyway.

September in Seattle

Need I say more? Absolutely gorgeous weather. Supposedly we're looking at rain later this week but right now it's 70 and blue sky. I had to run errands from 10 to 1 and so at least got out in the bright of day. I dressed for a little too warmly -- I didn't expect it to get so warm.

I worked long and hard yesterday ... yes, again!! .... and so by the time I got done with my chores around the house and walking the dog and reading the paper it was 6:30 so I didn't get much knitting done. I frogged what I had started with the Noro and cast on again. This time I started a p1 k4 p1 ridge to go along down the raglan increases and every sixth row I'll do a back crossing 2 stitch cable. I *think* that'll be what I'm looking for. I don't want to take this thing apart again so as long as it doesn't look like a mistake it's staying in. While browsing yesterday I found this link for a Kureyon Club. I didn't join. I was tempted, I'll tell you, but I resisted.

Tonight Tink's pal Shadow is coming to stay for a few days. It'll be fun!! I love having two dogs.

Talk about frustration!!

I was very excited to start my Ogee Tunic this weekend. Saturday I got all comfy, turned on the football game and cast on for the sleeves (I do two at once). The pattern immediate starts out with a motif that is repeated four times around each sleeve. It's an easy 18 stitch repeat involving YOs and p2 tog. I repeat - easy. So if it's so easy why the heck did I have to rip it out 5 times. Yes my friends - FIVE times. My left hand was aching so badly that I put it away and worked on my socks for the rest of the evening. I went back to it Sunday thinking that perhaps my needles weren't pointed enough -- see the problem I was having was getting the needle point through the two stitches to p2 tog. I changed to my Denise needles and cast on one more time. After five rows I still was coming up with wrong stitch counts and having a hell of a time getting my needle through those two stitches to purl them together. I put it down and thought I'd go to the LYS to see if I could find more pointed needles. In the meantime I started a raglan top down with my Noro Kureyon. At 4 am this morning the light went off. It's the YOs. I always have trouble remembering that you're not supposed to put your needle into the wrap on the front of the needle, but into the back of it. This has got to be like the fourth project I've done with YOs and each time I forget and have to start over because I put my needle point in the front of the stitch and the holes are too small. So now I'm excited all over again about starting the Ogee Tunic but I think I'll work on the Kureyon project this evening anyway.

I have always wanted to make a raglan sleeved sweater with a little cable along the edge of the raglan increases. You don't want to make a fancy pattern with Kureyon because the yarn itself is so beautiful so I thought this way I could add a little interest with the small cable and not take away from the beauty of the yarn. Problem is I'm winging it and the cables didn't come out the way I had planned so back to the drawing board. I will just take the needles out and start again. I've only used one skein and working in the round that only is a few hours. I don't feel bad about ripping it out because it's going to be one gorgeous sweater.

Each year I buy wood from my dry cleaner's husband. Jennifer has been my dry cleaner for over ten years (and a husband and a few boyfriends!) and she is just the sweetest woman and she has the cutest accent. Because I don't have a boyfriend in residence at the moment, her husband won't deliver wood to me because he would have to haul it up the driveway with only little ol' me to help and he doesn't want to do that. He told Jennifer that I couldn't do it myself. So how sweet is this? She told her husband to put my wood aside and make small bundles and she will bring it up a few bundles at a time. So Saturday I went by to give her a check. I was wearing my Flower Power Shrug knit in Kureyon and she went nuts for it. I told her I'd teach her how to knit. She sits there every day just watching TV. What a bonanza of time! Can you imagine being able to knit at work?!!?? She keeps saying she can't do it but I think I'll cast on for her and bring her some yarn and needles and let her give it a go. Perhaps she just needs somebody to show her rather than try to get it out of a book.

He's back ... or he never left!

My scary, crazy neighbor was out watering his planter box when I got back from visiting my Dad last night. Eeeeuuuuuwwww! I was SO hoping he'd be long gone. The car(s) are gone from the front of the house but that doesn't mean anything since they can park cars in the back and often have one of their 2 back there. Maybe she's gone and he stayed? I don't know ... that doesn't sound right since he was alluding to the fact that he wouldn't be around anymore, I think. He just smiled and waved like we hadn't had that bizarre interaction a few days ago.

I feel like I can take a deep breath this morning. I don't have people lined up at my office door, I don't have anyplace I need to be this morning either. Just me and my computers and tons of work to do, but I can spare a few minutes to blog. It was a chilly ride in this morning and it is very cloudy, almost looks like rain. Hopefully it'll hold off until I get my run done. It's kind of nice for a change. If it's icky this weekend I won't feel bad about just hanging around the house knitting and watching football. Tomorrow the Huskies are going to play Oklahoma on national TV. Not a good thing considering how the Huskies have been playing these past few years. On the other hand, it would be a nice way to stage a comeback. And then Sunday -- tada! The Seahawks start their regular season in Detroit.

Last night I almost finished the ribbing on my Green Gable. Tonight I should be able to bind it off and do the sleeves and I'll be able to wear it next week. I want to start my Ogee Tunic this weekend. I am going to do the sleeves first, both at the same time. That way I can get used to the first motif and recheck my gauge without committing to the front. I know I would hate to rip out the front of the garment but the sleeves -- not such a big deal. I was itching to knit on something different last night and almost started "Fetching" but I wanted to use two size 6 circulars rather than the dpns and the second 6 was being used by my Green Gable so I buckled down and worked on that instead. I only have two WIPs - my Crusoe-esque socks and the GG. I could also start the plain sweater I'm going to make with my Noro but I don't think it's a good idea to have two BIG projects at a time. One sweater, one pair of socks and a little something else -- tank or fancy hat or like that. (Who says there are no rules in knitting?)

Every year I forget

I forget just how stressful and insane the first week of class is. And this year it's even worse because, while she was often times the worst secretary in the world, I am missing the secretary for the little things she would do for me now. I hit the ground running and don't stop all day unless I think about it -- like now. Stop. Breath. Blink. All will be fine next week - or at least not so frantic.

Good news - I have an appointment with a counselor next week to talk about these issues with my dad. Even just talking with her for a few minutes today put my mind at ease. She told me not to freak out, that she can help me, which is SUCH a load off my mind! Plus my nephew has informed his mom that rather than head down to SoCal when he gets back from Alaska (Sunday), he's going to stay up here and help me and be with his gramp! What a good boy he is. I don't feel so alone in all this any more, which is really good. And I'll have good news for Dad when I go visit him tonight, which is also good news.

When I was up visiting Steve and Ginny I got a little wasp sting on the bottom of my foot. They had an exterminator spray them so it was in its death throes but stung me nevertheless. Here it is Thursday afternoon (this happened Monday morning) and my foot is still itching!! It's driving me nuts. I can't take Benedryl during the day because it makes me too sleepy. I took one last night when I got home from my hair appointment and I was out like a light before 10. Stress combined with the Benedryl I guess.

I got more done on my sock at the hair place. That is going to be one hot pair of socks! The stranding makes the fabric thick and cushy and warm. One of my lunchtime knitting pals gave me the information and sign up sheet for the knitting retreat in November. I sure want to go, but I need to see how things are going to shake out with Dad first.

Okay, that was my break. Back to it.

My strrrrange neighbors

Yesterday morning as I was biking down my street I saw my next door neighbor out walking. This was early - like 7:30 am. He is usually a night owl, getting up and out as I'm coming home from work, typically. If I get up in the middle of the night I can many times hear him playing his flute or guitar or something. He and his wife have lived next to me ever since I've lived there, which is since December of 1992. Also I had heard what I assumed was his wife leave the house even earlier. Anyway, I called out to him and said, "Boy, you're up early!". His reply? "Well enjoy it because it's going to be the last time you see it". I was taken aback. Now quite honestly, he's not a pretty man, so I don't know what exactly I was supposed to be enjoying, right? It is the way his paunch bounces as he walks down the street? The cute, greasy little rat tail hanging off the back of his head? What was I supposed to be enjoying??!!!

When I first lived there I would hear them fighting something awful. I heard things hitting the walls, screaming and shouting. And then they quieted down. She works. He smokes pot and sleeps all day, from what I can tell. I hope this means he's leaving and she's staying. She's nice, although pretty quiet.

Not much knitting done last night. I got the new Knit1 and went through that. Nothing that I am dying to make but I like looking at patterns. I'm not all that crazy about knitting stuff in Lyon Brand Yarns, mind you. The the patterns are sometimes cute.

I've got to get my run in early so I can meet and knit at lunch. I brought my toe up sock.

Can I have a hallelujah!

Oh joy and rapture, I finally found a heel for the toe-up sock knit on two circular needles that I llllllove!! It's not too tricky - you just have to use a third needle to pick up gusset stitches one time. I think it looks much better than the short row heel. I am doing a modified Crusoe and I realized that I should have made a little two stitch border before beginning and ending the pattern on needle one because when I started the gusset and turned the heel you could see where the stranding stretches and doesn't look good. Oh well, live and learn. I don't think I've knit a perfect pair of socks since my first one because I keep experimenting. Oh but this is it, I think. When my camera is back home I'll take some good pictures.

So that's pretty much what I did with my day and evening yesterday - got way into knitting that sock. I did also manage to try on my Green Gable and it's just a perfect fit. I need to do another few rows - an inch or so - but I might be able to wear it this week. AND I swatched for my Ogee Tunic and found that the size four needle and the Elann Devon weren't making gauge. I changed up to a size 7(!) and that worked out perfectly, stitches and rows! yay! I was not looking forward to working with size 4 needles. Sevens feel so much better in my hands. I was looking closely at the pattern chart. Yuk, I hate reading charts! I do much better when the rows are written out so I'm considering doing it for myself. It's such a long and complicated chart. It's hard to decipher the symbols for all of the different cables and twisted stitches.

Anatomy started today and I realize it's nearly 12:30 and I haven't stopped for a second all morning. Zoom! That's the way to make the day go by, huh? Hope the afternoon does as well.

A third!

The shrug is done.

Number 2

Still needs a button but I call it done!

Ta Da! FO number one!

Same dyelot and yet what a difference! Three to go!

Weird AND annoying!!

Dang! I have sent two postings from my phone with pictures of FOs and I just now notice that they haven't come through! I just looked at my phone and both of them have error messages. I wish I would have looked sooner. Oh well, I'll resend them after I'm done with this entry. My digital camera is at work because I'm going to be taking pictures of faculty if/when they come by so I have been taking pictures with my phone as I finish things. I got socks done and started a toe-up Crusoe with that green Koigu I had started my two at a time socks with. It looks good. I wish my camera phone was better. I'll just have to take a picture of it later with my camera.

I had lunch with my secret pal 8, Sherrill who drove all the way up to Seattle. She is just as sweet in person! I am so lucky to have gotten another great secret pal. We sat outside and it was such a nice day. She let me whine about Mr. G and was gracious enough not to look bored. (He called me from the road last night -- from Salt Lake City. The flying didn't work out in Oregon because it was too windy so he was just driving back to New Mexico. He COULD have stayed in Seattle and driven up during the week, don't you think? Huh?? Ah well ... ) Anyway, I think this next time around for Secret Pal 9 I'm going to be an Angel because I can't imagine I could get so lucky again. First Nonnahs and now her - it's too much to think I could luck out again. ;-)

I was thinking about work last night as I was driving up to have dinner with Steve and Ginny and realized that I forgot to put in a place for the students to enter their names for the first quiz of the class. Duh. Glad I thought of it before Tuesday morning so I can fix it now. Then I think I'll finish Kate's shrug and then swatch for the Ogee Tunic. I also received the Noro Kuryeon I ordered from Webs on Saturday. They are about as fast as Elann! That Noro is going to be a plain raglan sweater to let the beauty of the yarn show. Maybe a teensie twisted stitch at the raglan increase but nothing more. And then all I have to do is finish up my Green Gable. Oh, maybe I'll try that on after I finish the shrug and before I swatch for the Ogee and then I can maybe finish the Green Gable as well! Woohoo!

Okay so -- fix the quiz and toss in some laundry and get to knittin'!

Let the loooooong weekend begin

Last night I started my nice long weekend. Went to the Seahawks pre-season game. They handily beat the Raiders. Finally they were looking like the Seahawks of last season and that was great! I had, of course, other plans for this weekend but they have gone south (literally) along with Mr. G. Let's all now say b'bye to one of my least favorite mistakes. Will he be telephoning to say goodbye? Shall we make bets? Well the day has just started. I really have no clue if he'll step up or not. I think if he doesn't I'll do it, just to bug him.

So I have made pampering plans. It's a stunning day - not a cloud in the sky. Tink didn't let me sleep very long since she was alone all day and long into the evening last night so it's not yet 8:30 and I'm almost ready to get dressed and go in search of a nice cup of coffee and a scone or something. At noon I have an appointment for a massage. My friend R is an attorney who does some bartering. One of her clients is a massage therapist so I get gift certificates on every gifting opportunity and I have a few stacked up since the masseuse doesn't work on weekends and therefore I must have a weekend day appointment. A nice massage, then I'll run out to see my dad and do a few errands for him, then I'll have all afternoon and evening to start my FO extravaganza weekend. I MAY bind off the socks and cast on for a new pair. Or maybe I'll bite the bullet and finish up the cardigan and then while I'm watching movies tonight finish knitting the shrug for K. See? Lots and lots of fun things to do today and tonight. Plus which I've got 3 Netflix.

Tomorrow I get to meet my Secret Pal. Isn't that cool?? She lives close-ish to Seattle and is coming up to have a late lunch with me after my manicure and pedicure tomorrow (another pampering appointment). I am so looking forward to that. She has been an awesome pal. Now if Nonnahs could just fly up we could have a Secret Pal weekend! I have been thinking about SP9 and I have decided that I am going to volunteer to be an angel this time around. I have been so lucky 2 times out of 3 that I'd like to spread a little of it around.

This weekend marks the end of summer for just about everyone. My busiest time of year at work and football season as well. I am getting my wood delivered on Sunday. Not that I heat my house with wood but I have fireplaces upstairs and down and I found last year that $100 of wood really made a difference in the amount of heating oil I went through since I managed to keep warm downstairs without turning the heat on for quite late into the year. So I'm going to try it again this year. It's cosy too. Oh yes, I'd much rather have a cuddling companion but hey, can't have everything. (And the kid in me is saying right now, WHY?? Why can't I have everything?? I want everything. )

Retail therapy, my darlings

Ah yes -- that quick little feel good shot. Sale yarn. I just bought 10 skeins of Noro Kureyon at Webs on closeout. $5.70 a skein. Mmmmmmm! That should be enough for a nice simple raglan crew neck to show off the beautiful colors. Doesn't cure anything but it's a nice little balm, right?

All of my four projects are nearing completion at around the same time. My cardigan is still awaiting the final seaming. I haven't done any more than that one sleeve. It was such a bitch because you are mattress stitching bound off to edge. It's so difficult, but it looks nice. After that it'll be smooth sailing. So instead of doing that last night, since I was medicating myself, I worked on the shrug for my friend K. I am about 20 rows from completion. Seaming that it easy work. My socks just need to be bound off but I don't bind off until I have the time to cast on for another pair, which I will do this weekend. And last, the Green Gable. That has the most to do but I need to try it on before I can go any further because I want to make sure it's long enough. So. I am going to have plenty of time this weekend to work since Mr. G. is going and/or gone. My goal is to get all of those four projects finished. Frog the X-back tank because I am not going to finish it, might as well make the yarn available. Then cast on for another pair of sox, and swatch and maybe even start my Ogee Tunic. I want to also buy the yarn for the Rock Star Cardigan but maybe I will wait a few weeks until I'm finished with the front of the Ogee Tunic. Once I get done with the trim on the back piece it's just going to be acres of boring StSt so might as well have a brain teaser to work on as well.

Tonight is the final preseason Seahawks game. The weather is nice here. I hope they win.

Trying hard to keep good thoughts

You know when stuff keeps happening and you are just trying to keep it all together? That's me. And no matter how old I get, it never gets any easier -- I'm talking about the love/sex/man/woman deal. I truly can understand why some people just check out of the whole deal. Unfortunately for me I have this stubbon streak of optimism. I don't think my prince is coming though. At least I grew out of that. However I can't grow out of the believe that SOMEONE is out there. Unless he's dead. Or married to somebody else. Or taken a vow of chastity.

No knitting last night. Mr. G. (whose name is soon to be mud) suggested going to the driving range. It was fun. Something I can actually do better than him. Go figure. Good burger for dinner. Then the plans for my weekend are trashed. Ah well. See?

Thank goodness I have lots and lots and LOTS of knitting I can do. I need to finish up that cardigan - just sewing is all. I think I'll do that tonight. And I may be able to finish my socks at the ladies lunchtime knitting today and cast on for another toe-up in my Koigu. And then ... oh then I'm going to swatch for my Ogee Tunic.

Speed blogging

Things are nuts here at work and I don't have time for a long blog today. I had a pretty good weekend. I hiked up Tiger Mountain to watch Mr. G. jump off a cliff. It's called paragliding but ... I call it yikes!! My legs are pretty darned sore today. I think it was the hike down that did it.

I finished up all the pieces of my yellow lacey cardigan and started putting it together last night. Here's a closeup of the sleeve. I sure hate sewing things together. This took me forever but it looks nice. Tonight I'll get the other sleeve in and if my back isn't too sore then all I have to do is the side seams and sew on a button. Let's hope now, shall we, that this DOES indeed look nice with that skirt. If not, I'm going to be very mad at myself and then I'll have to go out and buy something expensive to go with the skirt!

All I hope is that I get through this week without any disasters. It's going to be that kind of week.