Okay, I either finished or quit all the stupid, frivilous projects I have been working on and started a new sweater. 
No Suzanne, it’s not the one I started at Tracy’s house the other night. It’s a different one. One I think I will really enjoy working on and actually finish relatively quickly. I am using some yarn from my stash with a little enrichment from Elann for the bottom border color. These are the colors planned out.
This is the main body color.
This is the color for the thin stripes that separate the body & border.
This is the border color.
I am rather fond of the 3 colors & I think I will enjoy this sweater a ton when it is finished! I do think I will change the pattern design a little bit. That sewing the round bottom to the pieced top just is too much work for me. So why not pick up stitches around the completely pieced & sewn top half and then work the seed stitch down to the bottom & cast off? Anyone think this won’t work for any reason?? It seems a lot simpler to me to do it that way. I will take picking up stitches anyday compared to seaming. Plus it will be a much nicer joined edge. After looking around at finished kyoto pics on other peoples blogs I don’t like how you can see the seam of the bottom & top.
I started last night and have about 5 inches of the back piece done, simple stockinette stitch while watching the boob tube is boring but super fast! This morning I have it up to 10″. It’s a lazy day for me today because I want it to be. I am tired, bad dreams, bad sleep. So instead of beating myself up by cleaning the neverending mess that is my tiny house with 5 of us in it, I will knit. I really had no idea that living in a smaller house meant more cleaning. I honestly thought it would be less/easier cleaning. Dead wrong!! There is less space to organize so there are more things that float from room to room with no true place to call home. Pain in my rearend is what that is! The older my kids get the more crap they acquire and the more floating items. I seriously could walk circles through my house just picking thigs up, putting things down, picking things up, putting things down. I am not a ratpacker either. The only things that accumulate in my house are yarn, books and patterns. Other than that I have the Salvation Army come out for donation pickup at least 2 times a year. Sometimes more frequently. Thank God I don’t want to keep everything! Sometimes I kick myself when I realize I put something in the donation pile that should have gone in the laundry basket but oh well. Someone just made a great find at the SA store! Alright, enough about my woes on organization/cleaning. Back to the knitting!!