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I got all the ends tied in (ok you caught me, I am not sewing in all those ends on the inside from doing ‘peabrain’ in intarsia) and the peabrain sweater blocked last night.

After finishing the Angelica I felt guilty for not having peabrain completely completed. It is done & today may just be cool enough for me to wear it! Yay!

Peabrain front

Peabrain back

Peabrain neck closure

I really wanted a better fitting mock neck that I could actually get off & on so I just opened up the neck instead of keeping it in the round, crocheted on 2 buttonholes & added 2 big funky buttons.

I am pretty happy overall with how it turned out. I could have done much better on the intarsia work but I also knew that this wasn’t going to be a masterpiece so I didn’t take a whole lot of care with it.

This is my new comfy sweater!

Totally finished!

I did 3 things differently than the pattern called for.

First, I decided on short sleeves for our down right warm weather here in SB.

Second, I did the increases on the bottom ribbing a little differently than in the pattern to get a bit of a leaf look to them.

Third, I used one small button instead of one large button like it called for. I thought a more dainty look with the short sleeves was called for.

I love it! It’s snug, not too snug I hope! After it’s done blocking I will see if it needs to be stretched with more blocking. I don’t knit my sweaters so fitted normally so it’s a different feel & I must say I dig it!

I do believe I will be wearing it on Thursday JS knitting!

I decided to go with a handmade card this year for my man. So I took some cascade 220 quattro in pinks and knit him a card with a mohair heart in the center.

 Then I glued a silver cardstock back on & voila, a valentines day card! We don’t typically celebrate this holiday due to the fact that in December there is my birthday, then Christmas. January is our anniversary. Then we come to this overdone day that tends to make more people upset than happy. I show him my love by telling him that I love him, taking care of him daily and being the best woman I can for his sake. I am of the opinion that valentine’s is a daily thing, not annual thing.

I express my love today to all my friends and family!

Suzanne has a beautiful poem posted today, I strongly wish you all to go read it!

I finished the postcards & one is going out to my secret pal today!

First a picture of the ‘hi’ postcard. I cast on 42 stitches with some random mohair on size 3 needles. Knit stockinette for an inch then started the ‘hi’ in purl stitches. Simple enough! I steam blocked it with the iron first then smashed it between a stack of books for an hour or so before gluing the cardstock on the back.

Here it is in the mailbox ready to go out. I am hoping that it will have no trouble going first class mail. My mail lady is the most anal postal worker I have ever met & I have a very distinct feeling that she will leave it in my box with a yellow card saying what rule I broke so that she couldn’t take it!

it’s smaller and more blurry in the hopes that my sp won’t come across it & find me out. I may just take it down tomorrow!

As I went out to put it in the mailbox I found this awaiting me!

Twinkletoes Sock yarn in Blue Goose colorway from Over the Rainbow Yarns on Ebay. Gorgeous yarn! 550 yards for $13 total! Sweet deal! I have never used this yarn before but I have been wanting to try it for literally years since I first heard about it on someone else’s blog. Very excited to ball it up & swatch it.

Who knows, you may just see a quick project made out of it in the next day or two! There is more than enough yardage for socks and a small, fun something!

This is a fun wristlet that I made using handpainted yarns boutone pure wool yarn in color liquidamber. Total time to make was maybe 35 minutes including sewing the 2 buttons on. I didn’t bother to do buttonholes, they just slide through between the stitches. Love it!