After much traveling, visiting, and merriment, we are finally home for a significant amount of time. While we had a lot of fun and good times visiting family and friends, it is nice to sleep in our own bed and sit on our own couch in our PJs all day! Of course, after a week away from work and school obligations, I do feel an ever growing "to do" list hanging over my head. But we've agreed to try to keep work off-limits until Wednesday. So I'm going to focus on my knitting and watching "Curb Your Enthusiasm" on DVD (and if I decide to actually put on some clothes maybe run to the store to get some new bedding for the hamster and 90210 on DVD).

I finished a second strip on the Circle of Friends baby blanket and seamed the two strips together. Then I realized that the seaming was annoying and cast on to do the next two strips simultaneously to reduce the seaming. So far I've only knit about 10 rows on that.

I also knit through about 4 repeats on Lilith and I've made it to the foot of Kevin's sock. I, of course, haven't taken any pictures of any of this or the newest yarn acquisitions.

Instead I have this picture...

This is actually a Victoria's Secret sweater that I recently saw in their catalog. My first thought was "oh that's cute." My second thought was "I can make that." My third thought was "I'm crazy." But the more I think about it, the more I think I could do it. There's three main pieces... 1. the neck/shoulders, which is just ribbing; 2. the cable across the chest; 3. the body/sleeves which in a careful look at the picture appear to increase about every 3 to 4 inches on either side of the knit column between the cables.

So I need to do some thinking about what yarn and how much, but I don't think it would be too difficult to create a knock off version. This probably won't get started until I clear out some of my current projects, but that doesn't mean I can't start planning and browsing my favorite yarn sites!