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Could this sweater be any prettier?! I’m pretty stoked about the raglan sleeves since I’m not a big fan of attaching them… sad but true. This sweater designed by Stephanie Japel is from the Spring issue of IK. I was hoping for a non-bulky cable pattern and this looks perfect…I’m pretty busty so here’s hoping it has directions I don’t have to do much cyphering.

This morning I baked a sour cream coffee cake for a coworker’s birthday… I baked it this morning so it would still be warm. I brought in a vintage table cloth and cake pedestal because gestures like this always loose their lustre in the presentation. DH is due back from Mexico tomorrow….I’ve missed him but I think his second wife (Callie, our Catahoula) may have missed him more.

peekaboo sun

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I am so excited to see the sun this morning, it’s been well over aweek since the sun has been out for more than an couple hours. This is truly freakish in Texas. DH is still surfing in Mexico despite an ordeal with the weather and flights leaving San Antonio. I do love my time alone, well with 3 dogs and a cat.
Yesterday I…..

• stitched up my first project from Denyse Schmidt’s book. It’s a cool oven mitt with flames and pom poms. I do need to finish the cuff by hand…a bit unwieldy for my machine.

• rigged up and started adding to a compost bin

• prepared chicken orzo soup

• baked brownies

• knit Roscoe a new sweater

• knit some more on my Moderne Log Cabin Blanket

• frosted the lower window in my bathroom so I no longer need to hang curtains and will always have the daylight streaming in.

• Watched in this order…”The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”, “Monster Thursday” and “Lords of Dogtown”. Note that the first two have subtitles so the fact that I did knit without many errors is pretty amazing.

Well, the sun is just too much to ignore any longer, though it is 40º, so I will have another cup of coffee, take the dogs for a walk, and think about what to do with the rest of my day.

sigh

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Okay I just had to stop knitting the afore mentioned sweater. I just thought I might die of boredom with the miles of stockinette…not to mention the curling at the hem. I think this can work well with a much chunkier yarn but is rather annoying in a worsted weight. I have my ideal sweater in mind: shawl collar, medium bulky, top down, raglan sleeves….any ideas? I did manage to get half the back done and then frogged it. I was deliberating over this with my elderly neighbor, Julia, who is 88 years and lives alone. She has a closet full of hand crocheted full size blankets and she advised me that if I wasn’t going to wear it… stop now. Good advice. She also spent some time speculating about whether the elderly woman (in her late seventies I think) across the street was sleeping with the man who is staying with her…. I managed to change the subject.

I am knitting the last two blocks of my Moderne Log Cabin Blanket. I would love to finish this before I start another big project… and think I will.

I’m off today, celebrating my birthday a week late. The magazine gives us a day off for our birthday but I was in deadline, so opted to take today while DH was in Mexico. Big gobs of alone time and a shorter to do list for the long weekend than usual. I’ve learned.

The list includes: note that some items did get scratched off the list!
• Buy a disposable camera to take some shots of recent projects (camera needs fixing)

• Paint my bathroom a soft "Oil of Olay" pink

• Repaint living room accent wall

• Move desk in office

• Drop of DH’s already boxed up end of year business stuff with accountant

• Goodwill trip to unload and pick up wool sweaters to felt

• Fabric shopping

• Sew anything

• Decide on next knitting project

• Pick up ball winder at Hill Country Weavers… and of course enhance stash

• See a movie

• Prepare Potage Parmentier (inspired by reading Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen) see right

I’m sure that the list of things I actually do will not reflect this one at all, but at least I have a plan. Since this is an extra day I will only do the fun stuff today, chore-like stuff over the weekend.