FO Easy V-Neck

Why yes, that is me wearing my snazzy easy-raglan-v-neck! I'm very, very pleased. I have not one complaint about this sweater. It's the first large wearable item I've made that I have not had some kind of issue with. I love it. I want to make another one-but with MadTosh Vintage or Malabrigo Rios.. I do like Knitpicks Swish though, it's very nice next to the skin. I actually still have some leftover swish worsted, it didn't take nearly as much as it called for. I might use the leftover to make a sweater for B.
I finished it last Thursday night, tried it on, took pictures, then dumped it in the sink for a Eucalan bath.

I haven't tried it on again since the soaking, it's still kind of damp. It looks like it might have grown a tad, but only lengthwise, which is perfectly fine with me. I'm actually impressed that I knit it in a little over a month (while completing a couple of other little projects even) and that I finished it even though I burnt my hand last Monday while cooking dinner.

Usually, if there is a kitchen mishap it involves knives or some other sharp object-I'm not prone to burns, I'm a bleeder, not a blisterer. But anyway, cooking dinner, somehow managed to scoop and throw molten grease on my hand. Had some tiny wee blisters and had to keep it bandaged. It hurt way too bad to knit until Wednesday.
 It doesn't hurt at all anymore so I've been able to start knitting slippers for M's mother, sister and aunt for xmas.

We had ordered some Bulky Wool of the Andes from Knitpicks in Navy, Stormy and Wallaby. Will have plenty leftover to knit a pair for my mom as well. Since those slippers really don't take much yarn, and the yardage on the WotA is fairly generous, I'll likely knit some mitts as well. I lost a pair of my Malabrigo worsted flip-top mitts last winter so I could definitely use an extra pair of warm mitts. Actually, the way I lose things, I should make a couple of extra pairs of mitts!

Did you notice the wool in the picture above...how delightfully cake-y it looks? That is because my swift and ball winder came! I'm so very very pleased!  It works great, and it's so fast! OMG, so fast. So worth the money (Worth more than I paid really). Thank you Etsy!

Winding up some Malabrigo sock in Aguas, I do not know why it looks greyish in the picture below.

My first cake didn't come out so great-and I realized that the beveled edges of my table are not conducive to clamping. Our coffee table is perfect though! Thanks IKEA. That skein of  Yowza that I have? Would have taken me sooooo long to wind into a ball. I think it took 10 minutes? Even with  the 5yr old "helping".

So, I've got slippers to finish, mittens to cast on asap, and the urge to knit harvest
with the sweater quantity I have of WotA worsted (which feels rougher than the bulky? does that even make sense?). Plus, I have the pattern for an ear flap hat called gyr that I want to make-but I'm not sure what I have in the stash that would work for that hat. I was thinking the SweetGeorgia superwash worsted might work, but I have some Malabrigo worsted in this super pretty colourway (Whales Road)  but a solid colour yarn would probably look better with Gyr...maybe I'll make mittens out of the Malabrigo?

Sometimes, picking a project and picking the right yarn takes longer than actually knitting it.