Front

Here we are, got a good start on the front of the sweater. I had to make the sleeves match but for the body pieces I've adjusted the color repeats of the 2 balls and I think it's going to be more even and without the grey on grey patches which, while pretty, are hard to knit.

900.8

That's how many miles we've run in the past 18 months. Not sure on that time interval, but it's close.
Tonight casting on the back of the sweaterformoney. Can I beat my 8 week goal?

The better one

Crippling injuries?

Because just telling people not to do dumb things is no longer enough?
We're at a soccer tournament in Orlando this weekend and this caught my eye. I have a better one ....

Sleeve 2

I'm halfway done. And we have some driving coming up, so with any luck I'll be working on the back next week. I really like it, but if I had to give KnitPicks a hard time, their skeins of Chroma often have tie offs and the breaks in the color make creating matching pieces sort of time consuming. At least no horrible yarfs (yarn barfs i.e. hopeless snaggy tangles in the center of balls of yarn).

Sleeve one complete

I still need a daylight picture. The more I work with this color way the more I like it. More soon ....

Progress

Dinner

There are some compensations for soccer practice. Tuesday's I have time to cook and an all adult audience to cook for.
Chicken thighs with sage and garlic.

Progress

Working on commission

Are my 3 readers getting tired of looking at endless photos of the stained glass pattern worked in Chroma Fingering? When I'm done with this one , I may be too.

This is Regency on itself - I wasn't sure at first, and I need to take pictures in daylight to do this justice - the colors are softer than they look here. But it had a rhododendrons-in-the-mist effect that's quite nice. I sent the blue/green version to my mom who has gotten me my first actual commission (second, I guess, since I did the Lions baby hat) to make the same sweater only in Regency.
It's a lot of stained glass, and when I asked hopefully if she wanted something different of course the answer was "no, exactly the same".
;)

Yet another hat

In Chroma fingering - midwinter and upick, which was a combination I wasn't sure about, but it's pretty nice. Largely done while watching Steven Frye crossing America. I just need to put a lining in it.

At school

The little had a ceremony to go - here he is wearing dad's tie. I just like this picture.

New clothes

The little one got invited to be in Jr. Beta club - the ceremony is tomorrow so I picked up the new clothes. I was surprised how excited someone was to dress up like a frontman to an 80's band. After trying all these on, it was "so, can I get new shoes too?"

Beanie hat - stained glass

I really like the way this came out - but I think it still needs to be deeper and/or have ear flaps. Lollipop Chroma, nice.

Newly dyed yarn

With child. Day off of many errands (2 dentist apts, school visit, DMV, clothes shopping, dump pick up) and I still dyed 5 skeins. New method; I mixed up pans of dye and dunked in the yarn. It still comes out tonal because the dye absorbs so quickly but you sort of batik it to get nice patches and blends. Its also much quicker and less equipment intensive.

Stained glass hat

With cotton headband lining. I love Lollipop Chroma.

New hair (see below)

Haircut

Went for dinner at Fox Bros afterwards. The hair cut was his idea - he even found a cartoon picture of how he wanted it to look.

Knitting at soccer

So, it's been 20 or so years since the last time I knit Kim Hargreaves' Tumbleweed pattern (Rowan#4). Here I'm doing it in Ivy Dishie from KnitPicks. I really like Dishie for clothes, not too soft (read pilly here, soft cotton pills too easily and looks ratty to me after a couple washes) and the color is nice. Im also making another Hazel hat - this one deeper based on feedback from the original. And I'm still making hexes for the vest, but that's slow right now. My big excitement is getting a commission to do another Stained Glass pullover - in Regency on Regency. So of course whenever this sort of thing happens, the "client" wants the exact same thing they saw you do before. I was all excited to sneak in a rose edging or something.
I've never seen Regency in person, so I'm excited to get it - probably early next week.

Finishing lined mittens

I thought a ribbon and button finish might work on these - I really like the fushia - they're still wet so maybe I'll put them together tonight.