FOUND!

Ha! I found the body of my dad's sweater. Thank GOD! Seriously, I was starting to have a panic attack. Phew.

I HAVE to get this done. Before this Christmas...remember, it's supposed to be a gift for LAST Christmas. Oh well. At least it's really hot in Arizona most of the time. Last I checked it was still well over 90 degrees most days. So I'm sure he hasn't missed it. But I still feel terrible about it the more I think about it.

"Hey, here's a great gift...an unfinished sweater."
"Gee, thanks. I guess."

Um, yeah.

That's the good news for now. The bad news, I'm still unemployed. I'm starting to get REALLY nervous. Bad economy, lay offs in the news, tougher competition. Gosh, I just don't know. Trying to stay positive, but it's getting hard.

Well, next post will have some photos...I promise! I'm going to get moving on this sweater. Now that the sleaves are done, the body is done to the armpits, I can see the finish line. I just hope it will fit him when all is said and done.

Bye for now.

Lost, hopefully temporarily

I can't find the body of the sweater I'm knitting for my dad. I have two sleaves but no sweater. Unfortunately, he's just not the type of guy who would wear wrist warmers. I've looked. I've searched, but I cannot locate the box, bin or drawer where the sweater is hiding. I can see it in my mind's eye, but just can't figure out where it is in this apartment. Panic has not yet set in, but if I can't find it tonight....well, we'll see what happens.

Bad TV night, so I will have time to look and hopefully continue the de-boxing of things.

Anyway, did you watch the debate? Of course, I was glued to the TV. I thought it was a good debate. I didn't really think there was a clear winner, but I liked that Obama called out McCain for his bad bomb-bomb-bomb Iran song and other poor judgement calls McCain has made in the past. I also didn't like that McCain called Obama "That one". McCain clearly doesn't have any respect for his opponent so he refers to him like a small child or item on a grocery shelf, "That one!" The condescending attitude continues...and yet the right-wing media darlings continue to label Obama as the elitest. Whatever. It also confuses me that McCain and his campaign have pushed Palin to bad-mouth Obama and refer to his past relationship with Ayers and Rev. Wright because they are grasping for straws, yet McCain doesn't have the balls to do it himself. I guess we'll see what happens over the next week because I think it will start to get even juicier.

As far as knitting is concerned, I have almost both sleaves done for the aforementioned sweater. I just need to find the body so I can finish the darn thing.

I have been working on the Lace Ribbon Scarf in the meantime. I am using 2 skeins of Malabrigo Lace which was purchased at Tempe Yarn and Fiber shortly before we moved to Chicago. I am doubling the yarn because one strand was not substantial enough. I was concerned about getting a nice drape with the knitted fabric and I believe it is turning out nicely. I wanted to use the yarn called for in the pattern, but I found it to be a bit pricey and it was out of stock in that icy blue color the few places I checked online.

Anyway, I think I'm about 1/3 done. It's a great television knitting project. I'm also using my iPhone to keep the proper row count. It's a 24 row repeat lace pattern. I found Stitchminder at the App Store and have found this app to be quite useful so far.

Hopefully I'll have an update on the sweater soon. Oh, and sorry for flaking on Daring Baker for September. I hope to be back at it for October.