yarnalong...

Daelyn pullover is off the needles and being blocked.  It was a delightfully quick knit ( for me, not being one to knit with worsted wt yarn very often!)  Of course, I would have preferred that it was grey, rather than this grey-ish beige, but this is what was left in the stash.  I may or may not try to get a photo of me in it, but rest assured that it will be worn.  It's long, oversized, cozy and just the thing to knock around the house in all winter long.  

At this very minute in time....I'm not knitting anything.  (That is....actively knitting; there are a ga-boodle of UFOs kicking around and one just may get adopted as 'project of the week' but I'm making no committments. Of course, I just bound off the neck about 10 minutes ago.)  It's a very weird feeling for me having nothing I'm drooling over starting.  Yes.  I took my temperature and it doesn't appear that I'm sick.

Books?  I finished Frankenstein (Mary Shelley version) and liked it much more than I thought I would when I was about half-way through.  Keeping with the 'Frank' theme, I followed up with Julia Claiborne Johnson's debut novel, Be Frank With Me.  It's a quirky story about a young woman sent cross country by a publisher to help a struggling author get her long awaited second novel written.  Her job was to 'do what it takes' to get this accomplished...which included cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the recluse author's 9 year old son, Frank.  Frank obviously is autistic, although a diagnosis is never given in the novel; he's a delightful, bizarre kid---who is obsessed with old movies, misfittingly brilliant, and attires himself in creative, if somewhat ridiculous, turn-of-the-century get-ups.  It's a good little story....pretty well written....that kept me up one night until the wee hours of the morning to finish.  It'll put a smile on your face.

I'm joining Ginny and yarnalong and hoping to find something I can't wait to cast on!

Comments

[Jane]

I like that sweater pattern. I'm curious about how to choose a size given the amount of ease in the photos. Right at the moment I need to stick to Christmas gift knitting. Time is wasting . . .

[Jacqueline Webb]

Well I think the brownish grey colour looks lovely definitely my colour.

[karen]

I cannot wait to see your sweater!!! I like that kind of grey actually.

[AsKatKnits]

Finished sweaters deserved to have some celebration time, i.e. time spent adoring them and not casting on something new! But, if you have not picked up a project or cast on something new by this afternoon, I think a trip to your LYS is in order! :)

[Debbie]

oooh, i like that color!! it's so rewarding to finish up a sweater, to finish up anything. nothing on the needles??? i can't do that!!!

[steph@woolythyme]

oh, kat!  I certainly don't need any more enabling!!!  (heehee!!!!  hubby wants the same sweater now....off to order some yarn!)

[Jennifer Miller]

After I finish Christmas knitting it is back to all of my UFO's!
Please post picture of the sweater when you're completely finished.

[Eileen]

Sweater is looking great, can't wait to see it on you!