As promised, here is one of my current projects:

It’s the first sweater I’ll ever finish.

I started a sweater once, about 12 years ago. I still have it, but I don’t have enough yarn to finish it and I don’t think it will be possible to find a close enough match so I decided to just unravel the whole thing and forget about it. What a relief not to have the 12 year sweater to bother me anymore. It’s traveled across the country and back and moved with me about 5 times. I keep watching those organization shows on TV lately, so it’s the first casualty of the de-cluttering that will be happening this year. To bad I don’t have a crusher like on ‘The Life Laundry’.

So, back the the current sweater. It’s Banff from the current issue of Knitty, which is great, if you’ve never visited. I used Steadfast Fibers wool, the color is called Rainforest, and I really like knitting with it. It’s been pretty easy so far, and was a good project for me to graduate to after lots of scarves and hats. I still have to sew up the left underarm seam, and finish the neck. The neck is not going so well though. I picked up the stitches, just like it said in the directions, but there are some holes in various places, so I’m going to have to rip it and try again. I think I’ll try using slightly smaller needles, the ones I’ve used for the rest of the sweater were awfully tight, I’ll just switch back to them on the first round of knitting. Are there any knitters out there with any helpful suggestions?

I set up a blog for my little bro, so go visit him and maybe he’ll start posting regularly. He’s on tour all over the country right now, so visit the shows page and see if he’ll be in your town. Not that I’m biased, but he’s great live, lots of fun and energy, and all the shows are pretty cheap, so go see him!

This is one reason I love living here:

We’ve had a little snow this winter, but it always melts within hours.

So, I’ve been up to lots of stuff since heylucy.net disappeared a few months ago. It’s slow going getting the website up and running again, but I’ll catch up bit by bit. Meanwhile I’m liking this typepad thing.

I’ve been doing lots of knitting, and I’ll have pictures next time! I’m almost done with my first sweater ever, and number 2 and 3 are underway as well. I’ve decided to embrace the fact that I’m an A.D.D. creative person, and not worry about having many projects going at once. I do finish things, after all. I just like to be able to choose from a variety of mediums.

Lookie what I got for Valentine’s Day:

It’s the cutest car ever in the whole world and it’s a turbo, so it zips around really fast. It feels like I’m driving a very comfortable yet speedy bubble. It’s in need of a name, I could use some ideas please!