I’ve been working quietly behind the scenes here lately but there’s not a lot of progress that I can show for it. I’m waiting for my Outlaw Sweater to come back from the tech editor (which should happen this week), I’m waiting for my testers to find the next problem with my Coastal Waters Shawl, and I’m writing up the pattern for my Assassin’s Creed sweater. In the midst of all this I’m still writing and getting some of my work together to send to agents (which is incredibly hard for me) and trying also to knit. Throw in the farming and I’m busy even if I don’t think I am 
This sweater is just waiting for me to start the button band/edging and block it. I think once it’s blocked the yarn will relax and bloom beautifully. I want to start knitting one for me but I’m really trying to be good and knit on projects I’ve promised other people.
I put a lot more details into this knit than I usually would but I also tried to keep them subtle. I really like the effect and I won’t lie, I’m a little bit proud of this sweater.
I have testers currently going through my Coastal Waters Shawl and picking apart all my mistakes. As much as I hate that I make mistakes they are a really fantastic group of knitters who don’t hesitate to point out that something isn’t working. In the end I know I’ll have a flawless pattern
Then of course there’s this. I was published in Knit Magazine issue 45. I can’t even tell you how excited I was to see my work in print!
I’ve submitted patterns to Knitty, Interweave, and Knitscene but this is the first time I’ve been accepted and you know what? It’s a huge ego boost for sure.
I’ve got some more design ideas clinking around. One for sure is my circle sweater I knit 2 years ago.
I actually knit this sweater, then I copied it for my friend Carol and never wrote up a pattern though it was fairly well received on Ravelry. Honestly I think my pattern writing skills have just improved enough to finally do it. Plus this sweater is so delish I think lots of knitters will want it.
I love that this is all done in reverse stockinette but I do think that this could have been knit in the round, steeked, and then the hem done. If I would have been thinking ahead I would have done that, and knit it inside out so that it was all in knit not in purl. I knit the sleeves inside out, why didn’t this occur to me?
The hood turned out super slouchy which I don’t know if is because of the pattern, my yarn choice, or my poor conversion math. Still, it lays flat and looks pretty cute from behind thanks to that orange hem.
I know for a fact that this is the knit that ate my mojo. I just couldn’t knit anything or focus on new knits till I got this stupid thing off the needles. Now that it finally is I can move on with my life!
3. Herman is still making funny faces and jumping all over ewes. I hope we’ll have some little red lambs this spring!
5. It’s been cold here in the mornings which is colder than it was last year but still..it’s December and NO SNOW.
6. I am trying to finish writing up Frankenfine and then I might be back to the real world. I’ve been lost in the land of farming and writing and now it’s almost Christmas and I don’t know where the time went. Soon it will be time for reflection and new years resolutions!
Aw My Mr. Dude. He does abide. You have to admit that anything along with his sweet bunny face is just adorable as can be!
Oops was not so happy about the adornment but I think that’s because it was a little big on him and kept slipping. In the end Charlie wanted it back and pulled it off everyone’s head until we put it back on him.
He loved it so much he wandered off to eat still wearing his tiara. Gotta love a goat that can accessorize!
Herman was not to be left out though.
In the end though I let them all get back to their dignified naked selves.
And Dude was merry!
Mr Wally knows he’ll probably never be subjected to such indignity because he doesn’t even like an ear scratch. He’s a sweetie face just the same though.
