Not So Fancy Nancy: Sweater progress

Sweater progress

Just knitting along around here, trying to ignore my cold. Got the chest cough from one kid and the eye infection from the other. Guess it was to be expected after nursing both of them the week before. At least they're both back a school, so I could take a little break today.

The Rogue is coming along with the cables starting to show up. The yarn is a dream to knit - I can highly recommend it so far. I'm happy with how the knitted hem looks.

Also got my Mindful Sweater started. The Sidar yarn knits up so quickly that I should be wearing this one soon. Good as we've got more rain coming. This is my current "carry around" knitting that requires no thinking. I need at least one project like that. I was worried at first that it would be slow knitting (actually making the stitches rather than how fast the yardage adds up), but it's pretty smooth.

What's this about? Last night I was cruising blogs by following the links at my newest knit-along, Flower Basket Shawl Redux. Ran across a link to this site about a quilt project called Portrait of a Textile Worker. (Sorry not to give credit for the link, but I can't remember who got me there.) Go look at this site. The quilt is simply amazing. Be sure to go to the Project Updates page and look at the close-ups. I got off line and spent a few hours carefully removing all the black and gray tags out of my husband's shirts and sweaters and my daughter's skateboard t-shirts. Brian was a bit aghast to come home after 9 PM to find me sick and obsessed with cutting up his clothes, but got with the program after I explained (he's pragmatic - too late anyway). Mailed them off today with the hopes she can still use them. I'll let you know if she needs more. I'm honored to think I can contribute something to such a meaningful and fantastic piece of art.