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Be Still My Heart

No, this is not a blog entry about yarn lust. It's the regular kind of lust - Russell Crowe in "Master and Commander." Oooh, man in a ponytail playing a violin*. I had to watch that movie TWICE this weekend. Oh, and if you're actually into the plot, I suggest turning on the subtitles feature on the DVD. A lot of the dialog is either muddled or lost in a British accent.

ANYWAY, watching movies, as you know, provides an excellent knitting opportunity. As do soccer games. Here's what I accomplished:

This is the first of the pair of Sockotta socks for my daughter. They're ankle-high, and just a skoash big so they'll last more than a week or two. This is my regular ol' sock recipe, except I modified the toe decreases to make its shape more rounded instead of pointy.

And here's the left front of the Everyday Cardigan - I might finish it off today and then get started on the sleeves. I am actually looking forward to the finish work on this sweater. This has been one of the great benefits of getting involved in the knit blog world; all of the knit bloggers out there seem as though they really pay attention to finishing details, and it's been very inspiring to me. So this one I intend to do the RIGHT way, not the FAST way.

I should mention that the only circ's I have in a size 8 are from my Denise's Needles set, and they seem to be working just fine. I had such trouble with the smaller sizes in the Denise's set.

*I know, I know, he wasn't really playing it. But I was willing to suspend disbelief because it was Russell, after all.

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