So many WIPs, so little cake...

I made a Bundt Cake, lemon-poppyseed. It's very yummy and almost all gone. Whilst waiting for the cake to bake on Friday night, I finished these wristwarmers, which are a variegated brown, for my Starbucks friend. (Here they are modelled by Dad, who has larger hands than I!) When I delivered them, the response was "Are You Crazy? You made these for ME?" Very cool.. . and now the rest of the Starbucks people want them. (sigh) So I need to make a pair of Medium and of Small, so everyone is covered (they will share, they say). Still , very satisfying.

Saturday / Sunday WIPs are shown here. The purply-blue thing is half a hat done in Shetland Chunky in shaker rib stitch. Yes, that shaker-knit sweater fetish I had in the 80s has come back to haunt me. Tricky to learn but not too difficult once you get into the rhythm of it. Speaking of rhythm, Wilson Pickett died last week... that sucks on so many levels. I am very pleased that I got to see him perform once live (at Bluesfest here in Ottawa) - on the same bill with Ike Turner, no less! Wilson F'n Pickett. RIP, big guy.

Sorry, digressed there for a minute. Also shown here are yet another pair of wristwarmers (needing to be seamed, but done knitting), in basic black for Julie's son Joseph (currently at Disneyworld/land, one or the other, where you don't need wristwarmers). These were dinner-and-hockey knitting while spending the evening with our favourite couple, Bundy & Kid (aka Jason and Yumi). Yumi/Kid has graciously agreed to be my matron of honour at the wedding this summer, and Bundy has agreed to be Master of the BBQ. This wedding will be awesome!

Finally, here we see Sleeve #1 of my (MY) sweater, finished increasing and needing about 4" before I start the decreases. Or maybe I've started them already - I need to check the pattern. Anyway, I'm loving how the variegated yarn works up differently in different parts of the sweater; check the cool diagonal-stripy thing on the cuff and the big diamond in the middle (which, if I recall correctly, hits right around the elbow-ish). The whole thing put together may look rather odd but I love it and it'll be warm, so F8ck 'em if they can't take a joke.

Speaking of jokes and funnies, I have to scan a couple of New Yorker page-a-day cartoons and get them up here, very funny knitting-related 'toons. And this afternoon I saw the weirdest/funny/cool movie, "Elvis has left the building". Random acts of death and comedy. Elvis impersonators. John Corbett (DROOL!). Lots of fun.

Right. Enough for today. Tomorrow here in Canada it is Federal Election Day. So remember, if you don't vote on Monday, you lose your right to complain on Tuesday. That's all I'm gonna say on that.