Well stuffed: . Contents will be revealed soon.

Finished one non-knitting swap project, making progress on another, and the other is about 1/2 done. I’m a swapping fool!

*sigh of happiness*

I like reducing the to do list again! I simplified the job a lot. I don’t know how to duplicate stitch or embroider. Have taken pics and hidden them in a private folder on imagecave.

Finished knitting for 1 swap project. Now comes the difficult sewing conundrum.

Revised swap to do list, again. 2 less projects, one less knitting UFO to worry about, getting close to finishing the knitting part of one of those UFOs still on the list.

Went exploring, discovered a LYS (local yarn shop) selling back issues of various magazines for $1! Tax included! Awesome, except they didn’t have everything on my wish list and one of those I had just bought on ebay. It’s going back up for sale when I get it, if in acceptable condition. (FYI, I’m in IL)

I stayed within my budget, but now I want Noro Silk Garden Lite and Debbie Bliss Alpaca Silk after touching it at this store…. Didn’t buy any there because it’s expensive there! Maybe I need to put up my miscellaneous Kureyon collection for sale or trade.

Done!

The original called for belled sleeves. About halfway through the increases, I realized it was going to look ridiculous on my skinny arms with this uncooperative yarn (arcylic). So, I made it a more fitted look. Ther other mod was not finishing the neckline in the same way (pattern called for 3 repeats). I did an oopsie and knit about 6 rows of stockinette before realizing the directions weren’t calling for that. Then I reread and discovred I’d picked up and knitted with the wrong size needles. So I finished one purl ridge then changed ot the correct size, then decided I wanted continuity and declared myself done with 2 purl ridges.

I like.

List is still at 11 UFOs. I started a swap project.

I modified it by using a short-row toe & heel (directions on Wendy Johnson’s blog or Knitty).

List shrinks to 11 WIPs.

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I found this hank of peace fleece yarn hand dyed by elliebelly that I got a while ago (pre-yarn swift and ball winder) when I did some stash reorganization. All my sock yarns are now in one place. This is the Ellie’s Rainbow colorway. (Ellie is apparently a very talented young lady, the daughter of the talented artist who runs elliebelly).

So, I picked up sewing again. I changed around the swap to do list (honestly, a little too ambitious), 1 less knit project for it. Have come up with a theme for package 2.0.

Here is a project that has been lingering since January:

Poor flightless guy. Based on the Dorina Dragon pattern by Aussie Jean. This is an improvement. It was

Made some sleeve progress on SKP and the garnstudio cardigan. It’s been slow warming up here. I wanted my long sleeves!