It's been a long time since I posted an update. Still working on the Viveka sweater for my daughter. I'm currently on the second sleeve. I've been everywhere getting ideas on how to block it because it's curling. I don't have carpet so one option is to pin it to my bed but, how will I sleep with a wet sweater drying on my bed. The other option is to pin it to my cardboard cutting board I use for sewing. I don't use it to sew at least it came in handy for something else.

I recently bought a pattern from Purlsoho and it was a waste of money. The pattern cost me $7.50 and it was something I could have figured out myself. I don't know what I was thinking, it was the yarn. I bought Blue Sky Worsted hand dyes 50% Alpaca/50% Merino. This yarn is lovely, it's so lovely I didn't even take a picture I just started knitting until the hat was done. I will post pics later.

I also bought some yarn from Knitpicks and Elann.

Still working on the sweater for my daughter. I'm finally on the front piece, working on the body. I switced to Continential knitting and it's so much faster. I don't know why I haven't done this a long time ago. I don't think I will have it finished for Christmas, so I'm going to buy her an iPod shuffle and send it in a large box. She will be so surprised because, she keeps saying it's so cute but she doesn't need one because she is in the car all the time. It will come in handy when she goes back to school.

I'm still working on the sweater for my daughter. I won't call it a Christmas gift because, it took me one whole week to knit the back. I'm going to start knitting Continential because I can knit faster eventhough I'm still new at this form.


I've put all my other knitting to the side for this one. I'm hoping to finish it soon.

It seems like I'm only posting on Saturdays but, that's because I'm on Jury Duty. When I get home at nights I feels so tired that I can't even think.

This is a nice picture of my Shedir hat, check it out.


and another pic of my Shedir



This is a hat I made for my son.


I purchased this yarn (Cascade 220) to make my daughter the Viveka sweater pattern I printed from Knitty.com. The colors are very similiar to the hat I made for my son. She saw the hat and liked the color combination.