My God, it's full of stars.

I feel very accomplished. I finished one whole sleeve of my cardigan! I actually knit four inches too long because I was in a groove. It's all big and squishy and pretty and wonderful. And I have almost three hundred extra yards of yarn and I really hope it'll be enough, because I used one whole skein (of seven) for one sleeve. I will probably be fine. Hopefully? Yay.



I cast on for the cardigan after finishing the centre triangle of the Neverending Highland Shawl of Epic. Are you ready for this? It's like you dropped on of those grow-a-robot things into a coke bottle full of water. From the begining, one pattern repeat at a time, drumroll please:













Yes, that's a DVD case. The centre triangle is larger than my finished Shetland Triangle. The finished product is going to be the size of an afghan. I am so excited to see how it finally turns out.

The Briggs & Little has the right crunchiness and weight, it's going to be very warm and it has the right look for the project. I don't think it's something I would want to wear next to my skin for a long period of time, but I haven't had any problems with it yet. The next challenge is going to be picking up the stitches for the border, which will be an adventure. I'm leaving that to when I have a nice chunk of time to myself to sit down and figure it out.

Last bit of knitting news is also creative writing news and school news! As my final project for creative writing class, Maddie floated the idea of doing a series of poems that mirrors the creation of a sweater, using all the knitting (choosing the yarn, casting on, ribbing, stockinette) as metaphor. It's an interesting idea, I just don't know if I can pull it off. Playing around with verses and lines now.

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