Instant Gratification

Because it will take a while for me to finish Flying Vest (despite my speediness, it does go slowly when you deal with 2 colors at the same time) and I'm still in a snit over not being able to get a good gauge for FLAK, I've decided to start work on the Medocino Cardigan, which can be found in "The Pacific Coast Highway", now only found on eBay with stratospheric pricing (I, of course, dutifully bought it when it was released at Yarns International several years ago).

Downstairs in the rec room, there are two bags of Crestari yarn which were bought at MDSWF several years ago, to be used for a blanket, which has yet to be made. There are two colors, dark blue and forest green. I chose to use forest green, and knit a swatch, which was right on gauge using 4mm needles, with 19sts/4". It's a bit stiff right out of the skein, but when washed is quite softer with a bit of drape. This is 100% wool, and on the label it says that this can be hand or machine washed. I'm kind of skeptical about the machine wash part. I have another swatch which I knitted up using 5mm needle (I didn't like the way it looked, plus the gauge was not on the mark for the pattern).

I started the right front last night, and now as I type this, I'm up to 9 inches. How's this for instant gratification? I should be able to get quite a bit more later tonight when I go with B for a meet-and-greet at a homeowner's association meeting tonite at someone's residence in the community. Pictures up either tomorrow evening or Sunday evening.

Today's supposed to be warm and sunny, with the temps in the 70s. It should be a really nice day to take Kai out for a walk when I go over later today. He loves to go for walks because he falls asleep . . . LOL! And it looks like it will be nice and warm next week as well. So I need to make a to-do list for spring cleaning - there's a lot of work that need to be done around the house and outside and as long as I'm not in a 8-4 job, I might as well use the time to get some work done around the house. Speaking of jobs, I'm going to check on the status of my case transfer to another counselor (the one I have now is not doing a good job of handling my case) later today and be very firm about the need for expedited processing. After all, it's my tax dollars paying for this; shouldn't it be working for me when I need it?