May 21, 2004

The heat wave of the past few days appears to be over, and we're back to cloudy weather for a while. The other day, while walking through La Croix Rousse, what do I see? A Piaggio scooter*. It's a message from the knitting gods, I tell you. They're calling out to me, "Finish your Audrey...NOW."

Oh, alright. Now bring us back the nice weather, already. And don't go over 25 degrees celsius, thanks.

In case you were wondering, this is where I am with Audrey right now:




Both sleeves finished. No blocking, but they could sure use it. Knitting the second sleeve was enjoyable and uneventful, except for when my skein of yarn ran out before I was able to bind off the sleeve cap. See the ends where I joined new yarn? Argh. There is nothing that annoys me more than having to join new yarn just to bind off a row. Grumble, grumble.

The sleeves have been completed, but neither the front nor back have been started. Maybe tonight or tomorrow evening. I still haven't decided if I'm going to work the shaping of the front and the back pieces as instructed in the pattern, which is probably why I'm being pokey about starting them.

*That Piaggio scooter is always parked there, so I'm sure that whoever owns it lives or works in the vicinity. When my Audrey is finished, I feel like leaving a little note taped to the scooter that reads, "Hello, dear owner of the fabby Piaggio Vespa! I will be sitting on your scooter on [insert date] at [insert time] so that I can take pictures of myself wearing my finished Audrey sweater. Please don't call the cops on me. Thank you. Much obliged."

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