Ruthless Knitting Archive

After feeling stalled out for a few weeks, I’m making visible progress again on the Kinari cardigan. I’ve finished up the body edging for the second time, and this morning I started the second sleeve. When I tried the partial cardigan on yesterday, it looked much more like my sketch than it had the first time around. I have my fingers crossed that the sailing will be smooth from here.

Meanwhile, David and I took off for Chicago on Friday, where we had a fun time tromping around the city for a few days, visiting the Field Museum, and generally pretending that we don’t have jobs or responsibilities. I kept saying that we were on "vacation," but David tells me that other people call this "the weekend." Hmm.

I checked out Loopy Yarns while we were there, where I bought some Aslan Trends souvenir yarn at 60 percent off. It’s an alpaca/merino blend in lovely shades of blue and orange that I didn’t quite manage to capture with the camera. David will have you know that he was the one who picked out these colors as the best pairing in the sale bin. I have already planned a hat pattern.

Thanks for all the amusing comments on the last post. Your guesses entertained me (and my mother), but alas, you’re all wrong except Rachel, who is right that that is the pig I made in Mrs. Smith’s middle school art class. Rachel knew this because she and I went to middle school together, and she has a ceramic pig of her own. Since Beverly Anne had the closest guess — that I am "making a piggy, cowie, bunny toy" — she wins the prize, which is either two skeins of Lorna’s Laces in Amish or three skeins of Manos Cotton Stria in a bright red (links go to Ravelry; if you haven’t joined yet, you won’t be able to follow them). I have to keep the exact nature of my design under wraps for a while, but I’ll let you know what I’ve been up to just as soon as I’m able.