The Energizer bunny comes through - pictures!

Ok, I finally bought batteries for the camera - in fact, a 24-pack, so I should be good for the next year. :)

And look - it's a sweater! Well, it's most of the front of a sweater; I still need to do the left-front bit for the zipper area. The pattern is from Patons "Weekend Retreat" book, the sweater called (oh-so-imaginatively) "Zip-neck Pullover". Here's their picture of what it should look like:











I think I'm doing pretty well, don't you? The pattern calls for Patons Rustic Wool (which I'm pretty sure no longer exists), but I swapped it out for Patons Decor, and I'm really liking how it's working up. But you know what the really cool bit is? It has cables! A whole band of cables, all across his big manly chest (and around the back too). NOTE: Peter's chest is WAY more manly than the model's. He's going to look GORGEOUS in this sweater! But yes, zoom in my friends, here are my first-ever cables!













Now, the really REALLY cool bit - I did the entire band of cabling whilst sitting in the walk-in clinic, waiting to be seen by a doctor. THREE HOURS waiting to be seen by a doctor. Thank heavens I brought my knitting! And you know, people don't even sit close to you when you're whipping a fishhook-shaped cable needle in and out of your mouth every couple of stitches, muttering and counting. :) Cables in public are FUN. You know, I just noticed that the blue looks very royal in this picture - it's actually navy. And the stripe is burgundy, not that weird fuschia-red that it looks like. The first picture has truer colours.

Let's see, what else? Oh, I finished Alison's Moda Dea Aerie scarf, the ginormous pink and orange fuzzy thing. I'll try to snap a picture of her in it next time we work together. She loved it - happy day! And I have a plan for a pair of slippers for Mary, but other than that, no gift-knitting this year. Instead I'm going to try and finish up all the WIPs lying around. I've got the Harlot One-Row scarf in Kool-Aid pink hand-dyed almost half done, my striped scarf almost half done, and various other bits and pieces (ok, they're socks, I admit it) that need reviving. With all that's been going on lately, I need to get things finished, know what I mean?