And back to The Sweater...The front is complete! 

Yes, me and 300+ otheres are working on this same pattern, same colorway...The Rockin'Sock Club's first kit: Cedar Creek Socks pattern with Rainforest Jasper yarn... 

And here, the little red jacket pic... 

This mass of yarn should end up looking like the little red jacket pic 

River Rapids-Sockbug's pattern... 


Close-up of patterning 

So here are the River Rapids--if you haven't gone to the site, Sockbughas a bunch of REALLY GREAT sock patterns posted there for free! I love it! SOCK PATTERNS, FREE, COOL-LOOKING...what more could you want? Well...MORE, but that's greedy, and I'm happy for all that is already there! Plus, I have a feeling she just keeps on adding to them!

These are my first time using the Lane Cervinia Calzetteria; a bit rough feel, but I am confident it will soften when washed! I hope so, since I am planning these for a friend and want to make her a knitted sock snob!

In case anyone cares, the Little Lola's are DONE! YES! And they look just like the earlier picture, only with the toes completed.

I'm so excited about the upcoming TKGA/COGA Regional Meeting coming up in April! I finally decided on which course to take and just need to register. Hopefully I get in! I just finished my sweater design class (the precursor to The Sweater)from Barbara Paley, and she highly recommended Barry Klein (of Trendsetter Yarns). So--I'm taking his Fabulous Finishing class! I can hardly wait!

Plugging away on 'The Sweater'

Making progress...notice the SHORT ROW SHAPING? I'm quite proud of that! 

Well, the front is coming along. What can I say? I like to work on TOO MANY projects at once, so I've been working on socks inbetween. Socks that Rock can be SO distracting!

Actually, I also have some River Rapids (a Sockbug pattern) on the needles...will post a pic!

And one more! 

In the Flesh!

And here is the baby who got the red sweater set! I just love seeing the items actually MODELED! 

In December, I had posted a pic of my "You may NOW Celebrate the Holidays!" sweater set. I am happy to be able to show it modeled by its recipient who was born right before Thanksgiving!

The Book MeMe

Well I just got tagged by Sylvia, so I figured-what the heck! I'm sure this won't be very interesting, but for the insight into how the non-literary live! DO they read? WHAT do they read? My reading time is limited (I use my free time to do more handwork than reading and I haven't tried reading and knitting at the same time! What reading I do is mostly magazines and how-to books with occasional whimsical reads--totally random and who knows why I pick up the book!...Seems that most bloggers are quite the writers-must be the attraction of writing that brings one to blogging. My quest to track my projects and blab was the attraction for me...So here goes:

[1] Name five of your [many] favorite books. Sad, but true, I have none. None that I could REALLY label MY FAVORITES in a very excited way, though I did enjoy Little Women the first time I read it as a kid. It must have been well-written if I could read that as well as Jo's Boys and get through both THICK (for me, and for a kid!) volumes! I love the Harry Potter series and my favorite book when I was even younger than the "Little Women" admirer was The Dancing Princesses (or was it 12 Dancing Princesses?). Anyways, I always loved fairy tales! I have enjoyed all of the Harry Potter books and enjoyed The YaYa Sisterhood.

[2] What was the last book you bought?
Sweater Design by Newton. I can't remember her first name...Deborah? Anyways, just thumbing through it right now and reading in scattered bits and pieces. I just can't read what is to be a 'reference book' cover to cover. It must be approached as more of an encyclopedia, exploring each topic as the need or interest arises.

[3] What was the last book you read?
Cover to cover-wise, probably the last Harry Potter Book (The Half-Blood Prince).Oh, wait--it was "The Chinese in America" by Iris Chang. And, of course, the last book I picked up to read a bit of was the Sweater Design book.

[4] List five books or authors that have been particularly meaningful to you (in no particular order).
I learned of George Anderson, a psychic in the East Coast via this series of books. Unfortunately, the author's name escapes me, but he didn't actually WRITE it anyway (IMO), he just threw a bunch of his radio transcripts with George's readings in and some other lady did the actual writing. George Anderson came out with his own book or two later. BTW, the name has re-appeared in my mind-JOEL MARTIN--he wrote the books, "We Don't Die", "We are Not Alone" and I think the third is "Messages from the other Side"--all with mostly transcripts of George Anderson's readings. I've read George Anderson's book, too. As a kid, I thoroughly enjoyed 'Noisy Nora'-somehow I related to her. OK, the big and only meaningful author-Theodore Giesel--yes, DR. SEUSS who didn't have much of an affinity for kids. Who can help but Green Eggs and Ham, Red Fish, Blue Fish, The Cat in the Hat? Oh-and reading William Shakespeare gave me an appreciation for getting through old English and enjoying it!

[5] Name some books you’ve been dying to read but just haven’t yet.
"Getting Things Done"--didn't the author REALIZE the audience he was addressing?! If we could get through his book, we wouldn't NEED to read it!

[6] Tag people. I'll have to direct them over here! Ms. Dana-Girl!-you're tagged! NuNu's--you, too!