I have a finished project!
Well, almost.

The baby cardi is done. All the knitting, anyway. It needs a blocking and some buttons. The pattern is from a Patons baby book, 1078. There's a few cute patterns in there, and some of them, (including this one) go down to preemie sizes.

The best bit? Very, very little seaming. The body is worked in one piece to the armholes, then the fronts and backs are worked seperately, then seamed at the shoulders. I eliminated that step by doing a three needle bind off. The sleeves were picked up in the armhole, then knit down to the cuff. The pattern wanted it to be worked back and forth in seams, but I worked them in the round.
The only seaming was to sew the neckband down at the back neck, after I grafted the two ends closed.

This may become my new favourite baby cardi!
That said, the next project is another baby cardi for a recently born baby girl we know. Is there something in the water??

I have been working on a quick project.

It's just a scarf in purse stitch (YO, P2tog), out of the yummy Rooster Almerino that I won from Yarn magazine. I'd mentioned to Monica that I wanted to make a scarf from it, and she suggested a nice one from Weekend Knitting. I started it, but it wasn't behaving, so I decided to go with something much simpler. This is my new "in between" project. For homework time, waiting in the car time, dance practice time or talking to my mother on the phone time when I can't work on the Shetland Shawl. It should only take a couple of days.

Kimberly sent me a lovely birthday gift, and included a packet of yoghurt bunny treats for Twinkie. We offered her one, and she was pretty keen.

Her reaction?

More!

MORE!!

There will have to be some strict rationing, I think.