Well, I made it! It’s in the mail! Cheryl, thanx for your confidence in how it will look. I’m not sure how Cherry Treey Hill feels about photos of contest proposals on blogs so I’m going to wait until I hear news from them before publishing any photos here. The sweater turned out okay. It fits Ellen better than it fits me. If I make one for myself I will make it longer.

I swear I have a love affair with everything I knit. I am totally infatuated at the beginning and want nothing more than to spend time with my new sweater on its needles. Until I’ve knit about 6 inches of the body; when I find out it is just like every other sweater, it burps and farts. When I’m about 1/2 done I start to loose interest and wonder if there isn’t something better out there for me. But I’m stubborn and will stick around to the bitter end. By the time I get to the collar and finishing I’m less than thrilled and can’t wait for a break from it. But like all great loves, the more time I spend with it and all its burps and farts, the more I come to love it. Now I wouldn’t want to live without the sweaters I’ve knit for myself.

It’s time to get back to all of the duties I neglected while falling in love and knitting this sweater. I realized that in 10 days I designed and hand knit a sweater. Whew, no wonder my brain feels empty, my shoulders are a bit tight and my emotions have run amok.

Hmm, what’s on my needles now?

Here’s a picture of the colors. I really wanted to knit a sweater in the Brick color, but there wasn’t enough to do a full sweater so I am also using the Aurora Borealis too.

I love this company and their yarn! If they had a web site I would include it here, but alas they don’t have one. The fiber content of this yarn 30% polwarth wool and 70% kid moahir. This is gonna be sooo soft and I’m totally at the stage of complete infatuation with this project! Dang, now all I want to do is knit!