EEgor, my masterpiece! Eet ees feenished!

After five long months, I put on the facings (gotta love those accidental shots!), and now I present to you,

My Completed Berroco Jacket!

I wore it in my office all day. It's very comfortable and it's a nice weight. It's not quite warm enough for this time of year, but I think it will be excellent in the spring and summer when the air conditioning is on all the time.

Yaaaay!

The Next Great Adventure

I already have a lot on the needles (and the yarn for my mom's sweater is on the way), but I seem to have acquired a desire -- no, a NEED -- for Koigu. I bought four skeins in the past couple weeks and I've fallen in love with it. This weekend I also found a Schaefer yarn called Anne in a lovely colorway.

Koigu left, Anne right

What am I going to do with it all? The koigu is mostly destined for socks. The blue and purle one is for a hat, and the rose one will probably go to Fiesta Feet, maybe paired with a grey (white socks get so dirty). One of the others may go to "Swatch Your Step" socks from last summer's Knitters'. They're mitred squares and may be a mother-daughter knit along project. And the fourth? I don't know. I just thought, "I'll go to the yarn store and buy some Koigu..."

The Anne is destined to be a cabled baby sweater for friends who had a baby on Friday. I found a cabled baby sweater pattern with the right gauge, and I should have enough yarn (4 oz, 560 yds, 7-8 sts/in) to make a baby sweater. Today I bought Barbara Walker's A Treasury of Knitting Patterns which has some beautiful cable panels, and I'll put something together over the next weeks and start knitting. I'm excited to design something myself. I'm going to hope that I have enough to make a whole sweater, but if I'm running short I may do a vest. I'm thinking of doing button or snap shoulders in either case. I hope that this yarn works for this project. If not, hey, socks for me!