Jewel's Purls

The Never Ending Sweater

I had a long weekend last weekend and I knit nonstop on Hubby's St. Anton sweater.  Stay tuned for photos of the finished project either tonight or tomorrow.

Meanwhile, I wish I was doing more of this:

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Happy New Year

It's 5 days into 2008 and I'm just getting around to making my first post of the year.   I'll try and get caught up with this post and photos.

In November we were blessed by the visit of The Flu.  Apparently The Flu liked staying here and refused to leave.   We battled pneumonia, sinus infections, ear infections, and with the help of antibiotics and perserverence we finally got rid of the horrible thing.   Needless to say, our holidays weren't as exciting as I had hoped and a lot of the photos I took disappeared.   I think all the wine we were drinking had something to do with that.

For Christmas the cats Chez Purls got a new scratching post.   Santa laced it with catnip before wrapping it.   I did manage to find a photo of Poppy sniffing his way to the catnip:

Here he is apres catnip, dilated pupils and all.  Apparently he doesn't mind the eye booger, so I hope you won't either.

I had taken photos of the kitties being their jolly selves wearing their festive red and white velvet collars (with bells of course), and kitty-sized antlers and Santa hats.  Poof.  Those are gone.  Again, I blame it on the wine.   

I have been knitting through all the sickness and holiday wine drinking.   I've been working on Alan's Dale of Norway (St. Anton) and I have the body done.  I'm using Knitpicks Telemark instead of Dale of Norway Heilo.  I couldn't find just the right shade of red for Alan so I thought I'd give this yarn a try.   I am pleasantly surprised.  We'll see how it wears, though.  You just can't beat Heilo; it wears like iron.

I started the sleeves today.  My goal is to get this puppy finished by Alan's birthday on January 22.  Here is Meems modeling Alan's sleeve her new hat.   It would seem that 80 stitches on 3.0 mm needles fits her head perfectly.

  "I know where you sleep, Mom." - Mia

I wish you all a very Happy New Year.  May you all be blessed with health, happiness, and many FOs.