It’s funny that I can go straight from that last post to this one. The feelings in both posts are accurate and sincere, and completely different.

Am I mental?

Anyway, I stayed home from church yesterday with my nitpicked children, and worked on sweaters.

The back of Abby’s sweater is done.

While it was wet and blocking, I looked through the yarn stash to see what I might use for the next kid’s sweater. I found that old kimono I was making for Veronica 2-4 years ago, can’t remember. It’s the only knitting I can think of that I’ve ever decided not to finish. The garter stitch is truly horrible.

I’m planning to make the Esther Williams hat into a sweater for V,

and I think I have enough of the purple to do it. Plus, I have a skein of a moderately darker purple that I might use to do the crocheted scallops around the neck, fronts, bottom, and sleeves. It’ll be an extremely feminine and fancy little sweater.

Ignore the red.

So we frogged it.

It made the most delightfully fluffy, curly yarn. The girls and I all ooohed and ahhhhhed. But we soaked it to straighten it out, and now it’s hanging in my bathroom to dry.

So far, this venture of knitting them all a sweater is really fun.