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I've been knitting along on my February Lady Sweater and I think I am about halfway down the body. There are alot(!) of stitches in each row, and with the pattern repeat over 4 rows I have a goal of knitting at least 4 rows each time I pick it up. I really like the way it is coming out, and can't wait to get started on the sleeves....which should go much quicker! Or so says my friend Karen, who has already finished hers (and we chose to knit this project at the same time!). It is also wonderful to see the sun shine for a change. I know Toby appreciates it too!

My son is home from college this week for his spring break, and look what he brought home! I guess he just couldn't wait to use Mom's new front-loader washing machine. Let's see.....21 T-Shirts, one a day, that's 3 weeks before he needs to do laundry again!

I pieced this wallhanging last year but was stumped on how to machine-quilt it. So, it lingered in the closet waiting for inspiration. Feeling a need to actually *finish* something for a change, I pulled this out and gave it another look. I wanted to highlight the rings somehow with the quilting, and just went ahead a made the decision to use a 'waves' pattern for the rings and a loopy pattern everywhere else. The fabrics for this wallhanging came from my stash, except for the green dotty fabric which I received in a 'ugly fabric' exchange.....and I don't think it's ugly at all! This quilt hangs in the waiting room of my husband's dental office, and it's bright colors really cheer things up during this long, gray, Michigan winter!

My niece and her husband are expecting, and of course I had to cast on for these right away: Knit on size 2 DPNs using a generic baby/fingering weight acrylic yarn from my stash. Such fun to knit something so tiny!

Since I have many single skeins of yarn, purchased 'just because', I picked up this book. I thought many of the projects were cute, and would help me put those single skeins to good use. So, in good faith I cast on for the Eyelet Shrug with a lovely eggplant Vanna's Choice. After several starts, I was unable to get it to work, and so I looked online to see if there were corrections to the pattern. I was really suprised as my printer kicked out seven (7!) pages of errrata for this book! I also have the first One-Skein book, so I looked for corrections for that one also, and found the same thing: multiple pages of corrections! Is it me, or is it just unreal to plunk down @$20 for a book, and then have all these corrections after the fact? Someone in the editing department was just in too much of a hurry, I think. After meeting last night with my Monday Caribou knitting friends, and having Karen work through the sketchy pattern with me One More Time(!), I think I might have a ...

This is what you get when you host the high school varsity basketball team for team meal.......... lots and lots of black shoes!

In my email in-box today was the notice for the Knitty .com surprise patterns that are extra additions to the web knitting magazine. I just LOVE this pattern.....!! It is knit in Montera on needles sizes 9 and 10. Very tempting!!