I still have to block them, of course, and weave in the ends, but here are the finished sleeves for my Phildar cardigan.

The next step is to knit the front bands and the collar and then figure out how to assemble everything, but clearly, progress is being made.

So, since I transferred my blog over to Wordpress, I’ve been slowly and laboriously going through my old archives, updating links to all my pictures and the internal links that I can find–to get entirely away from Typepad. It’s tedious, yes, and massively time-consuming (when I should be putting my time to more productive use). Luckily, by clicking on “File/Save Page As,” I was able to download copies of all the pictures from each month’s archive. I mean, I still HAVE the originals, but they’re mixed up with all the other photos that I hadn’t posted each month, and trying to identify exactly the pictures I needed would have take lots of extra time. This way, for each month, I know exactly which pictures I used, and it’s been easy to upload them to Flickr … although in the size of whatever the thumbnail was.

I find (ahem) that I’m not overly concerned at the size of most of the photos in my archives.

Tedious though this is, it’s kind of interesting to have a reason to look at every single post. Relive the memories. Stuff like that.

Like, for example, when Chappy met Risa and her twins for the first time.  Or the tribute I wrote for my uncle, just a week before he died of lung cancer. (I got a little teary as I updated each of those photos.) Hey–even proof of my actually having gone to a night-time, after-dark S&B knitting group.  (Yes, I know lots of you do weekly SNB groups, but me? I am not a night person, and once I’m home at night, that’s it. I don’t want to go anywhere.) My post from when Stephanie’s first book came out, and with a comment from her, too. (You know, from back when she had more time to comment.) Not to mention a display of Mom’s embroidery over the years. And, wow, my hair was short. Though, blessedly, not quite as red as it was in the very first picture I posted–from 2001 when Chappy was only a few months old.

So, you know, time-consuming … and therefore distracting as anything … but kind of fun. Even if I’ve only made it through three and a half months so far . . . and have two and three-quarter years to go!

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