The Home Stretch

So the infamous green sweater is almost done. It's actually together, and I'm just finishing the yoke. It just looks like a sweater for a man made out of spaghetti, but I swear that once I block it it will fit my patient husband. I am so excited that it's almost done, that I have actually started planning new projects. There are so many things that I want to make: curtains for my office, a drape/headboard for our bed, baby things (see post below), a nursing poncho, etc. I have a crazy elaborate plan the poncho, becuase I woke up one morning having dreamed about it, and now I must make it. I want to make it like a really big scarf, but with cool buttons to attatch on end to the side to convert it to a poncho when I want. I think that I want to do it in black, but do intarsia poppies along the end with the button holes, and maybe a graduated stripe along the bottom edge from a really dark burgundy to the bright red for the poppies. I'm still in a conundrum about the yarn though. What I really want is to find a lovely lace weight alpaca in the right colors and knit it with a double thread, so that I can have some fun with the graduated stripe and not make the whole poncho too heavy, but the sensible part of me says that I should make it out of something like the Red Heart Soft Yarn since that would be cheaper and washable. This is a little crazy since I only have 2 1/2 months left before my due date. I can only blame it on hormones, and start as many things as I can and hope that I finish some of them. :)

New Look

I just spent some fun time playing with the new blogger template tools. So ta da! new blog look. :)

I still Love the Drops patterns

I just got sucked into another hour of browsing the New Drops Patterns and the super cute Baby Drops Patterns. I particularly love that they are free, and so I don't feel like I have to buy a whole book for the one pattern that I will knit. I'm actually getting excited about knitting baby things. Partly, because I know that I will actually be able to finish them quickly. I could really use a feeling of accomplishment after the sweater that will not end. Here are some of the ones that I am considering for my baby projects:

Still Knitting that Sweater

I think that sweater is going to take the rest of my life. So, I figured instead that I would post some pictures of Sylvan and Me with our new cute haircuts. We have been trying to convince her that a haircut was a good idea for awhile now, but she wasn't convinced until I got one while I was away. We are still twins for now. :) The one on the left is the before picture of Sylvan, and then the middle one is the after. I think that she was more excited about the sucker that the stylist gave her than the cut. :)

Frustration!

SO, I just need to gripe a little bit. I am actually loving knitting the two sleeves at once, and it has been relatively easy, BUT in the last two days I have had to rip out the same four inches twice! and if you think that that is a pain with one sleeve it's horrible with two. It's like a twisted IQ test to try and get them both back on the needles. I had to do it once because I had misread the pattern, and the second time because I had twisted the threads. I feel like this sweater is never going to get done!!! I am hoping though, that I will get it very nearly done this weekend as I am flying to Colorado. We shall see. If things get too bad I may just flush it down the airplane toilet, and someone in Utah will get a wooley surprise.