You'll never guess what I did this evening...

I cast on for my Philosopher's Wool sweater. Shocking!

It's cute!


But it creates relative carnage in my living space:


The dark basket in the back left of that photo is currently holding the whole work in progress- lots of wound balls and so forth. I like my striping pattern for the sleeves so far, and can't wait to get to the fair isle. I figured I would start with a sleeve, to see how my gauge is. Thus far it seems accurate, for a sweater this enormous. It's meant to be mainly a jacket (and the wool isn't touch-skin soft, so that's fine). I'm thinking it may end up a bit 80s-tastic for my taste, but my Mom would probably love it. Either way, someone will get some serious warmth out of it. It is also my first real project for the Anne Knit-and-Read-Along- so hurrah for getting started. I am on Chapter 13 of Anne of Avonlea, which means I'm already behind on the reading as well. Tut tut.

I also cast on for another fun little project the other day. When I get very cold, I remember to start winter projects. This happened last year with leg warmers (knitted completely within a week, but then I never sewed them up). This year, I need fingerless mitts. I may try and actually finish them, this time.


The tubular cast on is very stretchy- it may even be too stretchy for my taste. But I can say I learned something new, which is good in and of itself.

The real life stuff has been fun- last night I went to see Fools and Horses, which is a band comprised of two brothers I know from high school and two other bandmates. They are, frankly, fantastic- check them out on iTunes if you like the Beatles, rock music in general, and superb guitarists. They played a lot of covers yesterday- the boy and I agreed that perhaps they could have played more of their own music. I understand that it was a college kid crowd, but they have already put out two CDs- and their music is better than most of the cover songs! I ran into another friend from high school while I was there, which was also lovely.

Tomorrow is a visit to my local yarn shop and then a pizza party with my college roommates. We may craft. And Monday, which is a blissful federal holiday, I plan to spend doing work. This rather defeats the purpose of not having to go to work, I realize, but it's time to knock out some writing. I'm hoping to put in a solid number of hours before heading to dinner in Vienna, and starting my workweek off right.

I would very much like to finish the Endpaper Mitts tomorrow. I wonder if it can be done? I'm still very wide awake, so maybe I'll work on the first one a bit more tonight and listen to more Anne of Avonlea from the Librivox recording... I am such a knit nut.