I finally finished Gizmo’s sweater.  I wandered away from my knitting last week – and what should have been done last weekend, just got finished this weekend!  Oh well, whatareyagonnado?  it’s a hobby fer chrissakes!  It’ll get done when it’s done — here at purlingswine that is the new knitting esprit de corps!  The sweater is from a Paton’s pattern and the yarn is leftover alpaca from Boar’s Vest.

This weekend has also netted one new knitter and one up-and-coming knitter!  Witness my sister-in-law Joann and my niece Jessica.  Joann’s friend was committing a heinous crime and getting rid of another relative’s knitting supplies.  Joann snagged said supplies thinking she would give them to me.  We had dinner together last night and she brought a bag full of needles etc.  Rather than take the booty, I gave Joann a lesson and she just took off!  YAY!  She is working on a two-stranded garter stitch scarf.  She is loving it and kept saying whenever her kids would call her — ‘let me finish one more row’….  Joann went home with her bag full of supplies and a project underway!  And little Jessica worked diligently on a chain stitch strand – she had every intention of taking her work to school tomorrow and teaching her friends during recess! My nephew Johnny could also be bitten by the bug — he was working that wonder-winder like a champ!

it’s like throwing pebbles in a pond!