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Today's one of the first days that actually feels like Fall. We drove to a town about an hour and a half north of here on the recommendation of our neighbor and by the time we go to where we were going the temperature had dropped about ten degrees. I snuggled into a cute jacket I bought recently and enjoyed the sight of the cool air blowing some preemptively cast-off leaves about. Boy, can I turn a flowery phrase or what?

With the onset of cool weather, what better thing to talk about than knitting? I haven't mentioned any of the stuff I've been working on lately so I thought I'd document it before I actually finish any of them. Har har.

Vest for Dave
I couldn't get decent lighting for this shot to save my life, so here's a dark picture of what I have of the vest so far:

I'm using Nature Spun by Brown Sheep in Stone and Burnt Sienna. Dave picked the colors out himself and I have to admit they look really great together. The picture doesn't do the colors justice. The pattern I'm using is the "Basic Vest for Men" by "Knitting Pure and Simple". It's pretty straightforward: knit in the round, and then divide for the armholes and work the front and back separately. It's all stockinette stitch which translates to great car and movie knitting. A few more inches and I'll be done with the back.

Sweater for Jenn
I love Noro, so I decided to splurge on a bag full of Silk Garden in color #84. Here's what I've got so far:

Once again, let's hear it for bad lighting. Here's a picture of the pattern I'm making:

There has been some anxiety over this sweater because: 1) the yarn is expensive and pretty and I don't want to make something I'll never wear with it; 2) even when my swatch matches gauge, everything comes out big anyway, so taking that into consideration I'm making a size smaller than what I normally wear (making adjustments in length so that it's not short) which brings us to 3) what if through some miracle I managed to hit gauge for the first time in my entire life and the sweater ends up being too small despite all of my efforts to outsmart myself?

When I finish the back I'm going to take a good long look at it with my handy-dandy measuring tape and either frog it or hug it.

Recent yarn purchase I'm going to use to knit something I'd much rather just walk into a store and buy, and yet...
Future socks:

Schoeller Stahl Limbo Color in color #2539.

All yarns and patterns featured in this post were procured at Mad About Ewes, which also happens to be where I worked off the associated costs. The problem with working in a yarn shop when you're a yarn junkie is that you end up shopping for five or seven hours depending on the hours the store is open on the day you happen to be working. The proprietor is a very smart woman. I'm sure whenever she calls to see if I'm available to watch the store she thinks "Ch-ching!", and not because I'm a great salesperson either.