Rich’s birthday is coming up in 5 weeks. I have had some yarn stashed to make him a sweater. After swatching for a couple of days, I have a plan. Here’s the bottom of the front:

I have designed some baby sweaters but this will be the first adult-sized attempt. I’m using Galway Highland. It’s plain, very soft to the touch, but seems to have enough twist that it will wear well. I hope to use the rest of my time off to make some progress.

In other news, we visited my mom last weekend. It’s not possible to escape without a box or a bag of stuff, right? This time the haul was a stack of 1990’s Vogue Knitting magazines and a book on Knitting for Barbie. I showed her the lace swatches that I did, but she wants something more like a heavy blanket instead of a lace shawl, and she wants brown. I was going for brighter, lighter, and far more lightweight. I left her with a knitted log cabin dishcloth. She called yesterday to report that she had taped it to the wall above her sink. I can’t get anyone to actually wash dishes with these things!