As you can see, I finally got the Peasant Top finished. It has actually been done for quite some time. I have since knitted a pillow for the couch at my Book Club(see below), a couple of cat blankets-which I have stopped photographing due to the volume of pictures previously devoted to cat blankets. If you want to see them, go to the Humane Society-and two super cute hats for my nieces. I did the Piggle pattern on http://www.knitty.com/ but moved the pigtail holes closer to the back of the hat. My nieces don't have quite as much hair as the model did. In fact, the elder of the two girls wanted to shave her head (her mother said no.) In any case, projects have been flying by.
I made a major score on some sock yarn in Walla Walla over Christmas break and am looking forward to utilizing that soon. Ironically, half of the yarn I got (of course it was on sale) was orange so I am foreseeing some BSU socks in my future. Currently I am having a hard time coming up with a project. The sweater for my husband-for Christmas-that turned into a vest due to lack of yarn is having to be re-started (agony, agony) b/c the gauge is off. Yes, sometimes when you calculate, it still turns out differently in the larger piece. Translation: my swatch was full of *. Since the sweater is six inches too wide (on my skeletal husband, that would be more noticeable than on most people) I am running out of yarn for even a vest. Grrr. I can't even tell you how many hours I have put into this thing (a lot) but I can tell you that I am not going to wing it from here on out. I am bound and determined to find a man's sweater pattern that will work. Seeing as how Christmas has come and gone and his birthday is around the corner, I will be making him one of those ski masks that covers his face so he won't be so cold outside this January. I better get to it. Time is running out.
