I've been knitting since Stitches West ended.  I used up all my undyed yarn, and it's been quite a joy to sit with the needles and create.  I even have a finished object



This is another sweater using the nifty pattern that Spinnity shared with me.  I haven't returned the pattern yet, and had another 2 skeins of the Fingerpaints yarn, and a new baby arrived.  We will meet Teague next weekend, and I wanted a nice and quick project for him.  Success!

I've been plugging along with the Claudia Handpaints Green Boucle sweater, with a pattern created from Knitware.  The pattern is bottom-up in the round with set-in sleeves.  However, when seaming the shoulders, I came to a clear epiphany:  Seaming Boucle Is A Royal Bitch.  So, taking a cue from Lauren, I am doing top-down set-in sleeves, from Barbara Walker's wonderful Knitting From The Top.  So far so good.



Yeah, that's the sleeve on the right side.  I'm almost done with the cap.  I got most done while watching Kill Bill Vol. 2 last night.  Of course I'll finish the nice, warm, mohair boucle just in time for spring and summer.



Gotta love 80 degrees in March.  Take that, New England!

Lest you think I'm not dyeing any yarn, I got a nice big box from my primary vendor last week.  It was full of a new-to-me DK silk and fingering silk.  I have more Creme de Soie to dye, and more Luxury Sock.  But what's missing?  The superwash sock!  Yes, they are backordered until April.  I was annoyed enough to call Louet and talk with them about their delivery time and prices.  When I first started this business, their yarns were twice the cost of what I chose, and the minimum order was quite a bit higher.  Now there is no minimum order and the undyed yarn is reasonably priced.  Soon I'll be offering 430 yard skeins of yarn with Gems Pearl as the base.  I'll still offer the other yarn, which is slightly lighter weight.  What should I call the new sock yarn?  I'm thinking Crown Jewel Sock Yarn.  Or Pearly Sock Yarn?  I want to acknowledge the wonderful product Louet provides in the name.

Today's effort produced 12 skeins of Summer Sunset in the Luxury Sock - 10 of which are already claimed.  And then I played to get a brilliant blue in the DK silk and Luxury sock (front and very back right). 



I still need to skein this, which was dyed in February.  I love the color, which I'm calling Persimmon, and will probably dye some silk in it.



On the work front...  I did The Great Debate in Helene Lipton's health policy class for pharmacy students.  I was the market-oriented health reform advocate, against Kevin Grumbach.  Here is Kevin in his Canada Hat, which was a gift from Hal Luft during their debate a year or two ago.  Hal's on sabbatical, so I got the job!