Progress!

So, while I'd love to share that I have been knitting away like a fiend on my Lady Irmelin sweater and am Right On Target to finish it, that would be a lie.  I quickly realized that to save my sanity (what's left, anyway), I would not pressure myself to finish the sweater before TNNA (which is coming up in 5 days).  Instead, I worked on finishing a dream project which I started in April (and I suppose the goal was to finish it in April too, but I was happy that I finally started it).  I sewed up the seams today and I proudly present my Cloudy Dreams Kimono:

I have both of Vicki Square's books on kimonos (Knit Kimono and Knit Kimono Too), and have wanted to knit up one for quite a while.  Someday, I hope to knit a kimono (or two) out of those books, however, this pattern is a simple Plymouth yarn pattern.  I knit it up using Cascade's Cloud yarn, which is 70% Merino and 30% Alpaca and it really is dreamy. 

Now I am working on a shawl (Caladan), that I'm sure I can get finished by Wednesday.  Really.

It all started.....

sometime earlier this week.  Last week I was thinking I would knit my second Swirl! and have it done in time for TNNA.  Then, as I failed to get much knitting done on my Swirl (I was busy finishing up a kimono....), and time started getting shorter, and shorter, I found this cardigan pattern.  Lady Irmelin.  Super sweet, and it said it called for 4 skeins of Manos Silk Blend.  4 skeins?  Is that all?  I could whip that out in no time at all!  4 skeins of Manos Silk Blend for a cardigan?  That doesn't seem right at all.  But, the pattern clearly says 4 skeins.  "Four skeins?" I asked myself.  No way, not possible.  But there it was, in hard copy and I wanted to believe it, I really did.

As I got deeper and deeper into thinking I would knit Lady Irmelin, yesterday I decided, YES, this is what I'm going to knit, and I can totally finish it in time for TNNA (which I leave for in just 12 days).  It only called for 4 skeins after all.

Even before casting on, I realized where the discrepancy lay....  yes indeed, the pattern said 4 skeins of Manos Silk Blend, four skeins of 100 grams each.  100 grams!  My skeins are only 50 grams, which would explain a) why I thought I could so easily knit this up before TNNA and b) why the mathematician in my brain said "No way".

Naturally, I cast on anyway and am knitting like a demon to finish the cardigan in time for TNNA.

(The shop is going splendidly, thanks for asking!  I hope to be able to blog more frequently, but, well, we'll see how it goes!)