Pics, progress, news!

First, a big apology to my secret pal -- It's taken forever for me to get these pictures up, but you'll see I've been busy.

Here's the wonderful package that was waiting for me after our trip to Florida. The outside was sealed with the cutest tape -- it had red, winged balls of yarn printed on it. Inside was this adorable sheep postcard and three skeins of Candy Apple Cotton Fleece. It's super soft, and lots of fun to knit.


This picture is closer to the actual color of the yarn, and shows just why I know the yarn is fun to knit. I've been busy with it. This is the Ballet Tee from Loop D Loop. It's my first adult-size garment, and it's been going really well. It's knit on US 15 needles, and goes fast.

I worked on it all weekend, while I watched movies on TV. My husband had to work, so I was left home alone with the new cable and my yarn. No complaints here! I've been exhausted, so it was nice to have a few days to be lazy and relax. Since I was knitting, I still felt productive.

I watched The Hunt for Red October on Saturday and Spiderman 2 on Sunday - and knit the whole time. I'm about half done with it. I'm making the larger of the two sizes, and hoping I didn't make a mistake in that.

The smaller size is for people who wear a US 2-8 dress size, and the larger size for those who wear a 10-14. I typically wear an 8, but I didn't really like the idea of wearing something that's on the top end of a small size.

I'm also ready to share some news -- I found out a few months ago that I'm pregnant! Hence the utter exhaustion. And, another reason I'm erring on the large size for the Ballet Tee. It's just starting to get warm out, and I'll have a bit of a baby bump by the time I can really start wearing it. I figured a bit of extra room couldn't hurt.

The pregnancy's also the reason I needed the 19 skeins of the Classic Elite. I'm going to try making the Mommy Snug in time to actually wear it when I'm gigantic this fall. Here's the sweater...



And here's my swatch. My gauge is a bit big, so I have some math to do before I actually start knitting. I think if I knit the smallest size, it'll still fit about right, given that I'm getting bigger stitches.


And just to show that I wasn't the laziest being in my house this weekend, I give you Cairo, the wonder cat. I came home from brunch on Sunday to find this:


Sorry about the wonky color. It's really hard to photograph a black cat who's hiding under the covers. Isn't she silly?