A Little Yarn On The Side

So, remember the bulky sweater that I was using for the Mad Dash to rack up some yardage? I was zipping along on the front until I met the designer's math errors, followed by, According to the pattern, the front plackets are supposed to be worked in a 1 by 1 rib while the rest of the sweater is in seed stitch.  Well here's a news flash:  those two stitches don't always have the same vertical gauge--especially in bulky-weight yarn.  The sweater is being put in the Project Protection Program right now until I can work on it without the desire to stab the designer with my sharpest dpns.......... I still have the Begonia shawl, which I love but is laceweight, so in the interests of making SOME sort of showing for the Mad Dash, last night I cast on YET ANOTHER chemo cap.  It would have been yarn out of my Mad Dash box had that not involved finding the right sized needles, as my hip was sore by then and I didn't feel like getting off the heating pad.  Tod...

Can you tell I love these?

And in the washing machine now, so no updated picture.  I haven't picked out buttons yet--I might wait until I'm off cold medication for that.  I came down with the mandatory I've-been-on-an-airplane cold on Thursday, so there was no Finishing Friday here.  More of a nyquil-induced-napping-Friday, which just isn't as catchy.  I did feel good enough to do some knitting, and am now to the neck divide of the front of the Mad Dash sweater.  I'm also into the edging of the Begonia Swirl shawl, but it pretty much still looks like just a noodly yellow mess, so no picture.  Ideally, I'd be working entirely on the sweater as it's on big needles and with bulky-weight yarn and could free up a lot more space in the sewing room, but spring has officially moved in to Idaho, and 65 degree days does not really make one reach for the wool........ I'm up and around a bit more today, so after finishing the buttonholes, I sewed the final (I think) 3 blocks for the red ...

I still have some hand stitching to finish, the facing to stitch down, and most of the button holes to do, but I might just squeak this in under the one year mark.

I'm not sure what my excuse would be for the rest of the week, but Thursday we flew to California to visit Andy's parents and just got home Monday night, so the only crafting here has been some travel knitting: Since I'm trying to do 3000 yards for the Mad Dash, a lace project was a spectacularly bad idea, but it's really portable.  This is the Begonia Swirl shawl, and it does make perfect travel knitting.  Now, of course, it's all I want to work on and I have some bulky yarn to get back to--which has all been a pretty moot point as since we got back I've been busy with cats, unpacking, laundry, etc.  But I am hoping for an actual Finishing Friday this week!

February ends as a not-too-noticeable month: Yards of fabric used:  3.1 Yards of yarn used:  1318 (which includes the 315-yard skein sold) skeins of yarn used:  7 Projects completed:  8 But with 90 more projects to go before the end of the year, somewhere there should be a noticeable difference in the sewing room, right?