ok so its been another crazy week... i meant to post over the weekend and yesterday - my job requires a lot of admin work for the computer systems of the law firm at which i work and i monitor the backups for all the servers... 80+ so each day i spend about an hour or so dealing with the admin of the backups.... then there are other problems which creep in - anyway, this is all to say that i meant to post yesterday and didnt - it was a choice of going home at 630 or staying even later... i went home.

a reader commented that i should check out CBC - i think i will - i keep forgetting about it in my enthusiasm for the BBC...so i will try it today.

on to knitting stuff -
(i KNOW i need a digital camera...i am searching...)
so last night, based on the latest measurements of my nephew, i FROGGEd the little red cardigan i knit last summer and fall and which i never sewed the buttons on - that'll teach me right? so now i am starting a larger size of the same cardigan - its of my own design - out of Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece - Barn Red - its full of cables and i loved designing and knitting it the first time - so this time will be easier... i might even write down what i do. it was a little depressing to rip it out but i am looking forward to reknitting it in a size that i hope he can wear for at least a year or so.

his chest is 21" now and i am thinking of making the circumference 25" so that it will fit over clothes and last a bit more than a few months.

i tried to stay up and cast on but i was pooped by the time i had frogged and rewound the yarn = while listening to the BBC news on the war. so i cast on on the subway this morning.

warning warning rant ahead
why oh why is it that people feel they have the right to SPREAD out (including their legs) over more than one seat on the subway DURING RUSH HOUR!!!!??? i have gotten really aggressive and like this morning, will sit or actually perch on whatever open inches i see - usually people ignore you but this morning the woman on one side of me engaged in not-so-sublte but passive-aggressive behaviour by pushing her left leg against my right leg - i just sat there and pretended i didnt feel anything and prayed (yes, prayer is very useful at times like these for me) and after about 5 minutes or so, she stopped.

someday i am going to say = "and did you remember to pay for the two seats you are taking up?" but i would probably get shot, right?

ARGH
ok, rant over.

am itching to start one of the Alice Starmore sweaters for me... let me say i have only worked on the Seaweed Stole of AS's designs so far - i have the kit for both bags (Thistle Bag and Heart Bag) i have NOT knitted a sweater yet - but i LOVE LOVE LOVE cables and i think i know enough about how to adjust my gauge and handle cables and sweater construction etc.. so i just may have to plunge in and start something now in hopes that i can finish it and be able to wear it in the fall - when it will be cold again aroundabouts here in nyc.

so here's the ones i am thinking of choosing for my first AS sweater... (out of the hundred or so that i have on my wish list).


Maidenhair Cardigan


Irish Moss


Fulmar

All these designs are at VIRTUAL YARNS
NAYY - just a very appreciative customer.

i will be pondering this for a few days and will report back as to what i decide. comments, suggestions, etc welcome!

happy knitting!