Nov. 6th, 2007

celticdragonfly: (Firefly -River - I'll knit)
I am continuing to work on the Celtic Braids cardigan. It's a bit nerve-wracking - despite having done multiple baby sweaters and kid sweaters, this is the first one for me - my first set of adult sleeves.

I'm at the point on the sweater sleeve where I think I want to stop doing reductions every 3 rows and start doing them every 2 rows. The pattern had called for every 4 rows - clearly that would have given me sleeves for a gorilla.

Before I go ahead with that decision, I'm spending time working on finishing details. This is to make it easier to try things on and get a clearer idea of how the finished garment will look, and make the decisions easier.

Yeah, right, you didn't believe that either, did you? I'm procrastinating wildly to avoid deciding what to do on the sleeve and whether or not I should put in a second life-line. But hey, at least I'm still making actual progress on the sweater. This has to get done sooner or later, and this way there will be less to tidy up at the end.

I have all the extant ends woven in, and 4 of the 9 buttons sewn on. I will knit fearlessly, but when it comes to things like sewing on buttons, I'm back to feeling like a 7 year old trying to sew something for her teddy bear. I don't think my skills at that have much improved, either. But it ought to do.
celticdragonfly: (Firefly -River - I'll knit)
A yarn package arrived! Wheee!

Not the calathea merino bulky. Not yet. THAT will occasion much excited dancing around the house and squeeing. But any yarn package is good. This one is three skeins of Swish superwash worsted from KnitPicks, intended for two different projects.

I am a hopeless ravelry geek - I am uploading the pics into my stash now.

I am NOT going to cast on just yet. No. I'm going back to working on ... oh, one of the other four projects I currently have going. Maybe I can finish one or two of them FAST so I can cast on.
celticdragonfly: (Alanna 6-19-07)
Alanna is definitely becoming ticklish. There's ticklish spots on the sides of her ribs, and the bottom of her feet are ticklish. She giggles adorably.

Also, she's so close to sitting up. She can sit up on her own, for a little while. Longer than before. This is a hard milestone to nail down, but she's just about got it.

She's such a sweet and happy baby!

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