Sigh.  Work in progress pictures are such a snooze.  Or maybe I just lack creativity in this area?

Above is my progress on the latest of cardigans for Miss Màiri.  A ‘Baby Mine‘ that I’ve been wanting to make for ages now.  Now that I’m to the section of lace where it’s just a two row repeat, it’s perfectly suitable, carry it around with me, mindless knitting.  Excellent.  The yarn however, which is a lovely, soft, organic merino, isn’t showing the kind of initiative with stitch definition that I would like.  Which is a bummer since I’ve had this vision of the exactly perfect finished sweater in my mind for so long.  I’m hoping that some careful blocking will make up for it.

I just finished up another project (alright, alright, I still have one button left to sew), but it’s a gift, so I’m not going to share it just yet.  It was a pattern of my own design and having walked away from it for a couple of days now, I’m seeing all sorts of things that I would have done differently.  I’m also not sure that I did very well with the sizing.  And since I’ve already found a suitable recipient for the first version (who happens to fit into it perfectly), I think there is a good chance that I might just start over again.

And below is exactly how far I managed to get on my own birthday knit…

Impressive, no?  I couldn’t get the chart to print out properly and sitting in front of the computer screen, knitting, just doesn’t do it for me.  Unless I’m watching a movie or something.  Which is a very happy thing to do (good knitting + good movie= contentment), but you can’t exactly read a knitting chart off of the computer at the same time.

On the sewing front, I’ve finally worked up the nerve to pull out the quilt that I’m making for Galen, in hopes of finishing it up for his birthday.  That is, if I can get my sewing machine working properly again.  I was working on a little project the other day and my machine has taken to adjusting stitch width all of it’s own accord.  So I’m sewing along and now my straight stitch is a very wide zigzag, back I turn it and back it goes again.  Very irritating, that.  Not to mention gross insubordination.  Doesn’t this dang thing know who’s in charge??  (please don’t let it know that I have no clue what I’m doing… and on that note, anyone have any ideas???  help!)