Quiltrageous!

Have we used that title before?  Your flowers are so nice!  It is interesting to think about the different assembly methods.  Very scientific :) What are your next projects?

I need to get a picture of the finished cardigan!  I've worn it a couple of times and I like it a lot.  There's a wonky thing going on at the bottom front on the right, but I'm okay with that.

I've finished the socks and need to put them in the mail to the lucky owner!  We have nice padded envelopes at my work, so I'll snag one of those today and mail off the socks tomorrow!  I'll post a picture after they are received.  I like the look of the pattern, but I'm not sure I'll make them again.  I don't think they're nicely stretchy around the leg.  We'll see what the review is once they arrive.

Since I didn't have anything lined up to work on next, I now have many projects lined up.  There's two pair of socks with some Anne of Green Gables-themed yarn for Middle and Smallest that will coordinate with each other, two shawls - one for a yarn club that Jeff signed me up for from a dyer that I really, really like, the second is one from a designer I really, really like and I finally have the yarn assembled to make.  There's FINALLY casting on for the Pokemon sweater for Catherine!  I thought I would be knitting it on larger needles, but I get gauge with size 2, so it's going to be interesting...  There's more socks - some for Jeff probably, and some for Middle with Taylor Swift-themed yarn (Middle is a Swifty), I do want to make Sarah a hat, there's also a second Darjeeling top for Smallest, oh, and Jeff wants another scarf.  I also have plans and yarn for a sweater for me, but I think that's on the back burner for now.

There's a lot!  Here's a bad picture of the scarf yarn.  And the Yarn Club shawl.

While your airplane time is winding down, mine is ramping up!  I have a quick trip this weekend to Philadelphia to host a dinner at the Biophysical Society meeting, then next weekend we go to New York to visit Sarah and her husband.  The first week of March, I go to Minneapolis for the American Physical Society meeting and a dinner there.  I also get to see Jeff's cousin and his wife, who is also a knitter!  At the end of March, I go with Smallest to Boise, Idaho for a ballet company audition (her, not me).  That will be exciting!  She has other auditions in March also.  It's quiet for a bit after that, and then in June I go to our program's annual meeting, this year in Italy, and then Jeff and I will take a week to goof around after that.  Very exciting!  After that, I think we're done until Jeff's family gathering over Labor Day.

I've started taking Spanish.  It's been pretty fun, and it's easier than French.  It helps that there are no tests but we do have to worry about spelling and accents and stuff.  The teacher is fantastic.  I need to make flashcards for vocabulary.  I'm hoping to practice with Sarah and Javi when we're up visiting.  

 I think that's it.  Ginny the Cat's allergies are bothering her again.  There's a shot she can get to help her, but the vet we talked to when she got the second shot was very discouraging, telling me that it would give her diabetes.  She also may have arthritis, and the vet wants her to get a $150 shot every month?  Time to look at pet insurance for real, I think.  Bleah.  She's only 7, how can she have these problems?