Lots o' knitting time lately

due to an inordinate amount of conferences, etc. where I sit around.  Additionally, I was sick yesterday so I kept my germy self home.  We're very clear at our office that we expect sick people to stay home and not come to work and plague the others.  One attorney called me Typhoid Mary once when I had this lingering cough (but was otherwise fine). 

Despite the creeping crud and my crabbiness at my first "sick" day in 2 years, I am pleased with the knitting:

I bought the Drive-Thru (Quicko-Cheapo) pattern from KnitandTonic and here I am.  I have also been reading EZ's workshop and so, I have been obsessed with colorwork (stranding) of late.  Wendy's pattern called for solid torso but I couldn't wait that long. 

Of course, the price for my itchy fingers amounts to the thousands of ends I have to weave in.

Kristi pointed me to a lovely tutuorial from Aija on weaving as you go, so where I could do that, I did.  It was great, and saved me probably 30% of the weaving to do.

The yarn is Plymouth Galway wool, in some tweedy shades.  I (heart) tweed.  The white is actually Jewels Optim, I think originally from SWTC, but rebranded for my LYS, Full Thread Ahead and deliciously soft (merino but extra processed).

Comments

[mary]

Your drive-thru is coming along swimmingly!

[Sarah]

The FTA optim is very pretty, but I was surprised how much I liked the Plymouth when I bought some at Uncommon Threads recently -- I'm using EZ's hybrid saddle-shoulder recipe for a sweater for my husband, and it really is a nice yarn for the price.

[Laura]

Wow that was fast! I hate using sick days, too. But now that I'm back to freelancing I don't get sick days! At least there is no one else around to share the germs.

[Kim D.]

The sweater looks great. You did a really nice job. Don't you just love the EZ books. I took a class with Meg Swansen last fall and she had so many interesting stories to tell about her mum. I tried not to act like a groupie.