well, i decided to make a little cap to go with the first baby sweater - so i tried a few patterns and then went back to the one i used for one of the wool sweaters for my nephew - its a debbie bliss pattern from her quick baby knits book. pretty simple and i am doing it in the sweater pattern - double moss - and got about 5 inches done watching the season finales of will and grace and er... neither too exciting imho.

ok so now i am going to go play with my web pages..

last nights progress

progress on the second cousin's baby sweater - fronts divided for left and right and all of back done (on holder to wait for joining with fronts). lucky me ran out of yarn at the end of the back - got so much done watching yanks - really old (20y) but full of interesting actors - eichorn, gere (boy is he young here), redgrave looking radiant, and devane (not quite up to the rest). set in small english village during the push right before the second front (ie normandie invasion). good local color and beautiful settings - filmed entirely in yorkshire.

so today i am going to sew all those buttons and seams and do laundry and errands- a housekeeping day. off i go.

wednesday update

ok so i finished the first sweater for the new little cousins - last night - while watching gilmore girls, the guardian and judging amy - all great shows! - sewed the first sleeve in and then knitted the second sleeve and sewed it in and then did the sc edging and decided to make buttons. its pretty cute if i may say so myself. (ok i AM getting a camera sooon and can put photos). the double moss stitch gives it some nice texture and the mutli colored yarn makes nice waves of color.

so today i cast on for the second sweater - tried to figure out another stitch to use but after perusing the volume one of walker's treasury realized that i only really wanted to do some lace or cable patterns and hate doing those unless in the round... so since i didnt want to experiment with steeking on this little cotton baby sweater - i am back to making the same one above BUT with a few changes - am not doing the buttonholes as i go - will do a seed stitch band all around the sweater when finished and add the buttonholes then - this way i just concentrate on getting the body done - should get some done tonight - if i can stop revising my blog templates and/or teaching myself html - by redoing my webpages.

also found some buttons i have to use for the aran cardiagan (the red one) and really am going to finish those sweaters tomorrow so i can mail them to the mom before he outgrows them all! the last photo is scary he is getting so big!

was going to do some garden work today, but really bad allergies hit in the late afternoon - someone is doing work on a brownstone across the street - i couldnt tell what they are doing but it sure is creating a lot of dust and debris and with the weather being cool i had my windows open and now am paying in spades . yuck. oh well, knitting double moss doesnt require to omuch concentration (just counting to two) and the body is a fairly large piece of work to do..

moving on

ok, i still need to get buttons for the red aran cardigan - work was such sat that i didnt get out of my office much less the building all day - so no visits to the good notions store on west 57th...

but last wed i started on a little sweater from the baby book that's my latest fav... this one is for the first of two cousins born in the last two weeks - a little girl, sara kate, born to my cousin molly. i am using some of the sugar babies lily yarn i got on ebay (i love ebay for cotton yarn) its called baby dreams or something like that - its a multicolored yarn in pastels and white - i havent knitted anything this light in awhile and keep washing my hands to keep it from getting grimy - of course there was a wee bit of adjustment to the tension and weight of this year which i have never used. i took the basic garter sweater pattern from the baby book (see above) and adapted it - adding a seed stitch band with button holes (although i keep forgetting to do and then ripping back) and used moss stitch as the body - its a little more fancy (i get bored with garter stitch). i finished the body by thursday night and seamed the shoulders together - and started the sleeves. one is done and i am working on the second one. its a fast little sweater. and thats good since it would be good to get them done and to the mothers this month.

and then i need to finish those other baby sweaters for my nephew.... and get them in the mail..... he is getting so big already...oh well, its a long night here at the office ...