Yarn has arrived! Cascade 200, in the color garnet. It has a little bit of variation in it, which is what I was hoping for. So the plans (long term) are to make this into a sweater for my sister (I can't say which one, in case they are reading the blog! They can just speculate about who will be so lucky... though she probably knows!).
What sweater, you might ask? My obsession for the last while, the Central Park Hoodie. Every picture I see of one of these hoodies is amazing, just gorgeous. This sweater is how I cam to realize that hooded, cabled cardigans are the bestest ever. My favorite. Of couse I'll consider making a non-cabled cardigan, but it still has to have a hood.
Moving on, I finally took a photo of Kenobi in progress. Here it is-- almost done with the back. I love how simple this sweater is, and the yarn I chose is so soft that I don't mind knitting it in the summer! This sweater is to be a birthday gift for my mom. Her birthday isn't until early November, so I have LOADS of time to get it together. Like what I was talking about in my last post-- slow is good! I am savoring this one-- just a few rows here and there, because once the stitch pattern is established, it is easy but not totally mindless.
I also have always gotten so much pleasure out of giving gifts to people, so working on these projects for others is sort of a zen way to spend my time. I also devoted some time today to putting together some gifts for mailing. My friend Nicky just finished her masters, so she had a package coming to her, and Lindsay, my sister, is preparing to take her qualifying exams in her Ph.D. program, and it sounds like it's been hell, so I got some things together for her. My personal favorite: home-made tea! I drink tea like nobody's business, so I finally decided to mix up a fruity batch of my own.
So I turned this:
Into this:
Recipe = hibiscus flowers, lemon balm, papaya, orange peel, lemon peel, cinnamon, vitamin C. And a cute mug, of course!
And finally, a better pic of the knitted wire jewelry I have been working on:
