Not a holiday for me, unfortunately, but on the bright side, traffic was very light driving in this morning. The weekend was good, but Monday seems to have come rather quickly.
Friday night I was exhausted and ended up going to bed early and slept 10 hours! It was wonderful. Saturday morning was taken up with a visit to our tax person. We are still missing some info (didn't it used to be that all paperwork for taxes had to come to you by the end of January? Apparently that is no longer the case.).
We ended up going out Saturday afternoon to grocery shop due to the weather forecast. And, sure enough, right around 4:30 p.m. it started snowing. Very wet and heavy snow, but it was beautiful and pretty mild out. This is what it looked like around 10 p.m. Saturday night:
I love when snow blankets the branches of trees. Sunday was mild and most of the snow is now gone. Fletch did walk around 11 p.m. Saturday and said it was very ethereal looking - lots of fog and beautiful snow (I was sleeping again - lol).
Meanwhile, it was the Chinese New Year (Year of the Dog). Colin and Mailing went into the city Friday night to have dinner with friends and spend the night. They planned to go to the parade, but it started much later than planned so they only saw a tiny bit on their way to dim sum:
Finally, there was some knitting over the weekend - Sleeve #1 is complete:
I'm thrilled - the sleeve is the perfect length (and I won't be running out of yarn!!). I've decided to weave in all the ends from the colorwork in both the yoke and the first sleeve before I cast on for Sleeve #2. There are So Many ends!! I really don't want to finish the sweater and be ready to block but have 50 million ends to deal with, so I'll get the majority of them done now. The knitting went relatively fast, but was a pain with the body of the sweater twisting around in my lap. And, using size 9 DP needles for the cuff was hard on my hands. Luckily it's not a ton of knitting. Hoping to get the ends woven in tonight after yoga and then I can start the second sleeve tomorrow.
Now I've got to get to work. I expect it to be an easy day and am hoping to get out of here early - maybe with enough time to weave ends before going to yoga!
How was your weekend?
I really hate knitting sleeves on top-down sweaters. The rest of the sweater is just . . . so heavy! Oh, well. It's all worth it in the end -- and you're going to end up with a lovely sweater. XO
ReplyDeleteyou can do this!!! Your sweater is lovely. Im impressed with the fair isle on the sleeves; looks great. The weekend was very cold here. I reread a book and knitting a lot.
ReplyDeleteYour sweater is really lovely, and I applaud your weaving in of ends now. Some time spent with that task now (especially before yoga!) will make the time left to a beautiful FO fly by!
ReplyDeleteI just came in from shoveling 4" of snow; unfortunately it will not be warm enough to melt any of it, as -20°is predicted tonight and tomorrow. Ahh, Wyoming in February!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on finishing one sleeve and having enough yarn for the other, too. Good plan to weave ends before starting the second sleeve. Soon you will be wearing the sweater. ❤️
Your snow looks like the dumping we got the other week. Now it's warming up again and it's almost all gone!
ReplyDeleteYour sweater is looking fantastic!
You are really serious about getting that sweater done. I am so impressed with your speed. That would take me years. Years.
ReplyDelete"SOME!?" Geeze. You are doing ALL OF the knitting! Your Wednesday post will be the whole thing AND a matching one for Tyg.
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The sweater will be on you for warmth by the weekend! Good work!
ReplyDeleteThe snow does look pretty!
That is going to be an awesome sweater!!! Can't wait to see it on you (in person).
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to Mailing .... hope her Year of the Dog is a wonderful year.
woohoo for a late February sweater finish (that you can actually wear :-)! We heard lots of fireworks to welcome in the Year of the Dog. Holly was NOT excited. Thankfully, it was just for one evening.
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