A Knitting Affair

The Tree Jacket is now started, well okay, it officially was started last weekend but I am making steady progress on it. I am currently working on US 7’s and black malabrigo. The 7’s make the stitches quite tight/stiff but I know that this yarn stretches and pills (as most single ply yarns do) and I don’t want that to happen with this sweater. Progress so far:

Also, this morning on tv there was an add for barbie – did you know that you can get her in her work clothes? She is only a secretary. You would think in this day and age we would see barbie be an executive. I could rant about it but I will save that for something more deserving.

So I have been playing around with the layout of my blog. Maybe a new change in its looks will inspire me to write more, considering that this will be my fourth post for 2009. I am pretty lame this year with my posting. I keep saying that I will post more – but I’m not, so I’m not going to say it.

I have finished some projects this year and this post will be considered “the update” for 2009.

Fitted Raglan Shawl
by Stefanie Japel
Completed 21.10.2009
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Clapotis
by Kate Gilbert
Finished 13.10.2009
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Central Park Hoodie
by Heather Lodinsky
Finished 12.10.2009
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All in All life is going pretty well. I really like my job, Cameron is awesome and in grade one. Whitley is as goofy as ever. As for knitting I am working on my hourglass sweater. I started it a long long time ago, put in bust darts, didn’t like them so threw it into the wip pile until I decided what I wanted to do with it. I decided to rip back to the darts and reknit that portion. And, since I finished my Central Park Hoodie and Clapotis I allowed myself to start the Tree Jacket in black malabrigo.