New Project Alert!

The best thing about finishing up a project is starting the next one. Yesterday I cast on Cecily Glowik MacDonald's Cable and Lace Pullover, published in Cast On, November 2007-January 2008. I'm using Dream in Color Groovy in the Bermuda Teal colorway. I LOVE the yarn; it's a hand dyed 100% superfine Australian merino. The color is so rich that it is staining my hands and bamboo needles, which is kind of funny. Clearly, this sweater will need a run through the wash (with like colors) before I wear it.

Photo shows an inch of ribbing and first 7 rows of the pattern.

The only thing I don't like about this pattern so far is that it didn't include a chart. Why don't the designers just include them all the time? In an effort to NOT botch every row of this project, I took the time to make a chart. I'm so proud of my chart, that it gets its own photo.

It has been raining for two days, and even though it just stopped, I postponed my yard sale do-over until next weekend. My room mate G and I have errands to do and I want to make some headway on this sweater. Plus, the Sox have a double header AND tonight is the season finale of TrueBlood. There is just way too much going on to try to cram in a yard sale that I don't even want to do anyway.

Yesterday I drove up to Yarns in the Farms (in Beverly Farms) to swap out the original Dream in Color yarn I purchased for the teal which I like better. I'm going to a four-day knitting retreat over Columbus Day weekend in the Adirondacks and I also had to drop off my deposit. I asked Carolyn if they go to the Adirondacks every year, and she said no, they normally go to Belize! GUESS WHERE I'M GOING NEXT YEAR FOR MY KNITTING RETREAT???