A Little Yarn On The Side

I can now put this away because the second sleeve is now DONE!!!!!! (Thank you RobinH - competitive sleeving really did help. You don't have a dem fisher sin fru laying around unfinished, do you?) Now it's on to the neck ribbing and the seams!

Tonight I have not only finished the back of Andy's sweater, I have figured out how to photograph it to show the pattern! There's no stopping me now! BRING ON THE LACE!!!!!!

So I've finished WIP number 8 in the WIP marathon, which would be quite exciting except for the 19 WIPs left. Not that I actually think I'll make it all the way through to 27 without casting on something new. I mean, if I had that sort of willpower I wouldn't have ended up with 27 Works in Progress now would I? To give myself a little motivation, I've joined a "Knitting for Men" project for September--the idea being I show some traces of project monogamy and actually complete a knitting project for one of the men of our species. Fair enough, one of the WIPs is a sweater for Andy which takes such boring pictures bur is actually much nicer in person. It's "Gridlock" from the fall 2003 issue of Knitter's Magazine , and since they had the sense to do it in red, theirs photographs much better than mine does. Judging from yarn requirements, I've almost used up 436 yards of the 1535 the pattern calls for, which means I've knit 28% of th...