I still don't know if my neighbor liked the sweater, or if it fit, or anything about it! They left for India in December and while the husband came home in January, the mom and little boy stayed for another month or two, so we haven't seen them a whole lot.
I think I will start with current projects and then work backwards to the previous post.
The good news is the blue shawl that I started back in Jan of 2018 (at the NSF meeting I surprise attended) and last mentioned in March of 2018 has been released from time out. I am in the lace section of the Sunwalker shawl and the first time I started, something went very wrong and I had to rip back. This time I am being much more careful about stitch count and the lace is actually in pattern this time. My problem was that I had stopped, and while I had marked the row I finished, the stitch count matched the previous row, so I wasn't sure where I was supposed to be. Thanks to FINALLY going and looking at the stitches, I determined that I had missed a yarn over, so that was corrected and all was well! That was in the first lace repeat and now I've finished the second repeat. Two to go. My blue yarn is starting to dwindle. I think I can get through the third repeat no problem, but the fourth (and last) might be tricky. I don't have a recent picture, but I'll take one soon. I might have gone up a needle size, but at this point I'm not going to worry about it.
I have another sock going as well. This is with yarn that I got in San Antonio when I dropped my son off for his Freshman year of college. That would have been August of 2016. It's from Lone Star Arts, Mockingbird base and the color is Zombie Dawn. The pattern I'm using is Wildcat Socks, which I found while dropping Middle off at her summer art program last year. It is a fun pattern and reminds me of the green Swirl socks I made a while ago. Here's the beginning of them.
I'm heading off to the annual meeting for the biophysics group I work for. This year the meeting is in Munich. Oh no! I have to go to Munich! I am hoping to find more Zauberballs to use to make another sweater for my friend's son. I think he's pretty big now, similar to the way my son grew, so I'll have to think about how much yarn it will take. Good thing yarn is squishy in suitcases!
I'll post more again soon. I made sweaters for both of the girls. I like the one for Smallest better than the Gable I made for Middle, but there is yarn for another Gable and I think I just need to go down a needle size. She likes it, so that's the important part.
Fun news - I get to see Catherine after the meeting! She will be in Berlin and Jeff and I will take some vacation after the meeting to go noodle around Germany and stop in Berlin along the way.
Margie
