ProseKnitic – of Words und Wolle

While the girls and I were doing the cruise thing last week, DH and the Mole were out in California on a two fold mission.

First, take a look at various colleges and Universities to see where the boy would like apply. He takes his “A” levels this year and finishes mid-June. Not being a fan of gap years, I want him to have plans firmly in mind. It also might do something for my ability to make plans and a budget for next year. Ms Soprano is also looking at the San Francisco area as a transfer student.

Looks like I may well change to California residency. The difference between in-state and out of state tuition is $20k. x two students. That is well more than paying 9.3% of my income in state income taxes….

I can do that because of the other reason they went: to close on the house we bought in Berkeley. Nice kitchen, great deck with view, masterbedroom and bath on main level (and the rest of the bedrooms upstairs). Redwoods, real redwoods on grounds along with plenty of storage. Less than a block to the bus stop and
under a mile to shul.

Plenty of storage space for all the stuff, including books and stash. Only thing is, if I started sorting out stuff now I could probably be ready to move in a couple of years…..

are colors that I often wear. So much so that I have been asked if I own anything (other than blue jeans) that does not fall into the categories of red or shades of white-grey-black.

The answer is a strong, maybe.

This might explain why I decided to knit this sweater from Drops in shades of grey and red.

Carefully reading through the directions, I rapidly figured out two things. The first is that, as a cardigan the sides are not going to match without steeks. The second is that I have to be willing to have stripes that are not the same width.

While I was at it, I decided to make a few changes. Not being a fan of reverse stockinette, I borrowed the garter variant from the last sweater.

Being quite lazy, and recently more than willing to frog things that do not make me happy – the

first sleeve

is going to serve for both a gauge swatch and to see if I like how the colors come out. So far I am happy. I don’t mind stripes on sleeves and it should be reasonably easy to make them match.

I have four 100 gm balls of sock yarn, on 3.00 mm needles. It should be enough for the smallest size. Unless, of course, I wind up with too much wastage from matching patterns.