Sweatergirl's new home!

1. We're buying a new house (if all goes through in the inspections). This is a house, to say it kindly, with potential. So in the near future, I'll be pretty busy making the house a home. Anyway, it is quite exciting and should be a lot of fun (and I will have great parking for knit-ins).

2. Because of this, and because, well, I've been a delinquent blogger these past 6 months, I had thought about discontinuing this dribbling commentary. But vI've found a new web home - Pink Tea. At the Tea, there's a group of knitbloggers, so you'll see more updates and more projects. Many of the knits are traditionally focused or inspired, so you'll see Fair Isles, Arans, and lace. But lots of other beautiful things too. I'm excited and honored to be invited to the Tea! Come visit me there. I've even got a new post up!

Sweatergirl's missing post

Weird - I found a post that I had started 9/23 - wild. I'm spurred to post by Rob. Ack! I don't want to be a dead blog. Hope to fill in with pictures later!

We had a lovely show-and-tell at Guild on Tuesday - wow! Such beautiful stuff - and such productive knitters. At least having the pressure of having to have something finished spurred me to finish this little purple sweater. I had started it when E was perhaps 3 weeks old? By the time I started the second sleeve, I must have forgotten what size I was making - the sleeves are different sizes. Classic. Perhaps archetypal, even.

As for now, well, it is now one week into the part-time work arrangement. It is - ok. Obviously, I can't get as much work done in 8 hrs as in 40, and it is a little frustrating. Things that took days will now take weeks. Which is ok, but will take some getting used to. I'm writing this on my way out the door for my second half-day of work this week. Otherwise, I have been having lots of fun with Baby E! It is wonderful to watch her learning about her world.

Knitting wise - I am nearly to the armholes on the Baby Dale. That's all I've been able to work on, since it takes so much energy and organization to work on multiple things. It is mindless knitting - until I get to the armholes and have to grab the pattern again.

In non-mindless work, I've been working through Beth Brown-Reinsel's book "Knitting Ganseys". We've got a tiny (come join us!) group at ThreadBear where we are making the sampler from the book. I'm working through the various options, since I have already made the sampler. The book is very well-written; she presents several alternatives at each step of the sweater, but you can just follow the pattern straight and learn a lot.

I am wearing Anjuli. I STILL cannot get the bands to lie flat. I give up. It is still gorgeous - I just hate that you can tell I made it. I wanted it to be perfect. Alas - perfection is out of reach for now!

Blogwise - I apologize for being remiss in posting, and remiss in responding to comments. I've been concentrating on getting a blog together for MMKG - I am working on getting Wordpress to work - if anyone has worked with it (or another free cms), I'd love to hear about your experiences.

More later! With pics!