Yarn Along

Oh, its been a while! I've been knitting and crocheting and sewing the hems on miles and miles of muslin for classrooms, but with four little ones home from school/kinder over the break I didn't get much of a chance or inclining to do the bloggie thing.  I love the holidays and I don't think they are long enough, but I've put the grief of school starting behind me and I'm looking forward to a new rhythm this year. 

I started this Sweet Peasy when I was almost finished my Semele late last year, and its nearly there.  I'll cast it off tonight and start on the button bands.  I used a 4ply, becuase I found it on sale in the right colour - man, I found it hard to find a good 4py girls cardigan pattern in English, so I knit the Sweet Peasy, which is in 8 ply in the size up (9-10) and its fitting my 8 year old.  My second Sweet Peasy and I managed to get the lace panel right this time.

 I took these photos for Rav yesterday and I wanted to share them.  I attended a fantastic doll making course last year and I made these two beauties in their Poppy Cardigans for my big girls for Christmas.  And my Semele because I am proud to have finished it with only one teeny tiny very minor mistake.

My boy insists on being in every photo I take, unless I want to take a photo specifically of him.  Then he runs away.  This is what most of them look like before a bit of cropping!

I'm reading How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran.  My sis gave it to me for Christmas.  It sure is bringing out my inner feminist!

Happy Knitting!