Starting with the Girlfriend Swing Coat by the lovely and talented and HOT DAMN there just might be a book there! Wendy of Knit and Tonic! I took it off the needles to wash & dry since I hadn't done that to the swatch. At the moment it looks rather butterflyish. Using Noro Bebe [73% Cotton/27% Linen] that Ana had sent me last year. Once it is dry it will get back on the needles and will hit FO status. Knitting on 8mms since the yarn is thick and thin which meant tweaking of the gauge etc. Hence the pulling off for a quick wash, don't want to end up making Kiddo a mumu. Same for the Essential Stripe top by Wendy. Since changing yarn weight/needle size and it's a supahwashwool I stopped where I was to let the yarn loft. Really don't want to have armholes that start at my waist. So far so good and by the post loft looks of it I only have 10 more rows to knit before I join the body. Must pick up a longer set of circs this afternoon (yay a walk to Barone's!) for my CP bamboos are going to break at the most inopportune time if I keep abusing them (I just know it'll happen, I do!). I know what you're thinking, Zib, you *ahem* really going to be wearing horizontal stripes? Nope. Two colors it shall be red up top and will switch to black after the short row boobage part is done. Sleeves might do all red with a black cannoli stripe in there at the end. Now I would REALLY like to complete both of these. Simple, elegant and frankly, if I were the garment designing sort as opposed to accessories they'd be what I'd be shooting to do. I dig her style.

A gratuitous Yarn Pr0n shot of the delicious wool I am using for the next Serena wrap. Hand spun by the above Ana. I'd started the Aran Angle shawl with it but didn't like the way the garter part was sucking up the yarn so it had been sent back to The Box. This Serena is for Amanda who agreed to trade socks for a wrap with me. I don't do socks. She does. And she does beautiful ones at that - she posted a photo of them, can't get her page to come up but by the time you read this you should be able to take a gander.

Next likely to be finished WIP is the lacey possibly hooded sleveless top I'd started sometime during the summer. Cast on the back and made it to armhole shaping last night while watching the last three episodes of the first season of Desperate Housewives. A quick knit indeed, if you don't put it down for 2 months at a stretch. Silky smooth merino, handspunesque (no idea if it is, got if from the LOYM last year).

Finally two of the three current shawl type projects. First had to pull and block the handpaintedyarn to check dimensions so I could formulate /triangulate / contemplate etc. It's a two hank project (less than 250yards of bulky) since that is all I have of that particular color though I am pondering an edging w/ some multi-colored leftovers from another hank. Don't know, I'm not much of an edging type of person.

And then there is the Filatura di Crosa self striping mohair I'd picked up when it was really freakin hot here and I had no business even thinking of mohair let alone buying a box of it from the LYS but it was so pretty AND it changes colors! I know self striping is a common thing for the rest of you but Italy is a bit behind, we make the stuff for the rest of the world but rarely have it on the shelves here. The design I had originally worked up for the hpy.com's Pocitos looks fantabulous in the mohair, pics do not do it justice but I stopped putzing around with the camera once I saw the battery was running on fumes. The yarn has a bright core so the stitch design shines thru the halo. Neat effect.

No use posting Kofi until he is completed, using the Juju doll pattern from the Anti Craft. I see a whole lot of dicktaters in my future. Come to think of it, this calls for a KAL.

Now off to brew some rocket fuel and get in an hour an a half of knitting for the rest of the day will be full of domestic goddess crap and I won't be back to the needles until after dinner.

And here's to a stench free home once again!

Tomorrow will be a Reads link dump, yes, Paris is still burning.