You know, I think I’m bored with my Ribby sweater, too . . . I don’t think I’ll bother to finish it…..

I mean, after all, I started it in July and it’s been just dragging along, not exactly rushing to get done with Autumn Rose hogging the knitting time, and, well, you know how boredom is . . .

Um.

Okay.

I’m just teasing. You know . . . I’m ribbing you for my own pleasure. Because, of COURSE I wouldn’t stop five stitches from the end. Do I look crazy to you??

(Wait, don’t answer that.)

But, seriously, except for weaving in the end from the neck band (a mere bagatelle), my Ribby is DONE. Even to the ribbon lining the zipper band.

This is the only picture you’re going to get, though. Every single one I tried to take for you made me look absolutely hideous–ghostly and transparent and shiny and just really awful. (I mean, look at the color of my hand in this picture. My skin doesn’t really look like that. But now picture my face looking as awful as that . . . yeah. You can see why I cropped this picture off at the neck, huh?

Otherwise, it’s been a beautiful Sunday here. Crisp air, blue sky, just really lovely and a far cry from yesterday. I spent most of the morning cleaning and doing laundry. This after cleaning up from Chappy’s having gotten sick at 7:00 this morning . . . on the 3" strip of rug between two of my spinning wheels, which means that some of the bile ended up my my Little Gem’s treadle. He didn’t mean it, though, and naturally I forgave him. I moved very quickly getting out of bed, though! I grabbed the towel from his crate to get under his chin and then knelt next to him doing the human-dog equivalent of holding somebody’s hair while they lean over the toilet. After about 10 minutes, though, he was feeling better and started trying to jump up and give me kisses . . . Um, I normally enjoy Chappy kisses, but let’s just say his breath wasn’t particularly appealing just then. I was glad he was feeling better, though, and around 7:15, I climbed back into bed to get some more sleep. (I mean, it was Sunday after all.)

I am glad to have my Ribby done though. It fits well, even if the sleeves could perhaps have been a hair longer, but considering how close I came to running out of yarn for them, no complaints. And, honestly, I don’t even miss the front bands I forgot to add on before I basted in the zipper (grin).

Autumn Rose is moving along, too. I’ve got something like 27 more rows to go and it will be done . . . all except the steek and the neckband. Not bad for a fair isle sweater I just started in August, huh?

Oh, and one more thing. I’ve started a Cafe Press shop, for two reasons, really. One because I thought–since I like calendars so much and have gotten compliments when I’ve posted pictures of the personalized calendar I got for myself last year, so I thought I’d make one available to you folks. (And, gosh, if I were to have another November Calendar contest this year, you never know, it might be a prize!) But also, any proceeds are going to the "Help Mom and Dad" fund. I don’t have many products set up yet, and if there are any products that you’d like to see that aren’t there, let me know. (Like a mug or whatever.) If it seems reasonable, I’ll upgrade to a premium shop so that I can offer more things–like, say, different notecards, but I guess we’ll have to see how that goes! I figure I’ve got some decent photographs that seem like they’d lend themselves to cards and calendards very nicely, and it seems a reasonable way to try to make some money. (I actually already have an assortment of my own notecards from Shutterfly.) As I say, proceeds are going directly to help my folks, not to, you know, buy more yarn or whatever, so if you feel like buying, please come on over!

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