Dr.Watson All The Time!!!!

The last hat is finished! Again this hat has no pattern and just loosely based on the Sixty Cables hat I had been making for the Podcaster Throwdown. Used in the making of this hat was Jojoland's Melody superwash yarn in the MS16 colorway (teal green). It was so much fun to use and the subtle color changes were perfect! Someday I'll have models for my hats but my darling children don't like to cooperate most of the time.

I promise it is done, just not in this picture.

However instead of casting on the next hat for Halos of Hope, the Dr. Watson Sweater was cast on instead. Last week had a swatch in progress but that was as far as planned. Somehow in my ability to not count to 48, I was able to successfully count to over 200 stitches. That was only counting through ONCE. OK, maybe twice. Since the cables and the chevrons require thought processing different from ribbing and stockinette, it's a knitting place I'm ready to be in! Happy Happy me! Oh, wow, just measured the body and it's 8" in length. There's 15" until the next step in the pattern. 

Great place for a swatch!

Since I was a good Knitter, I swatched. Good thing I did, too. The swatch showed I needed to cut out several stitches in order to make it fit my build without a ton of excess fabric. The center of the sweater has 3 cables on each side of a chevron. In order to create my size, 2 cables per half were removed. This is being knit in the Knitpicks Wool of the Andes Gypsy Colorway.

ARGH what a week! I think I'm done for lately. Fates are conspiring against me! The night I typically write a post had issues and that's putting it mildly. Thursday night are when DH has college classes. Last Thursday DH had a final to take where he needed a laptop. So he borrowed mine. Shouldn't be a problem right? Wrong. My old reliable decided to act up for him and refuse to load the user profile. As always I get the call right as I'm within a mile of home. Campus is several miles out on one of the busiest roads around. So after leaving the Things in the car, grabbing the charger for my work laptop, and fighting traffic. DH was able to take his final roughly 15 minutes late. The ride home was rough because the Things wanted their Daddy and it was dinner time. So we grabbed some chicken nuggets for just the boys. Then it was bed time. I spent the last few waking hours of that night restoring my laptop.

On the docket for Christmas money may be a new laptop just so DH and I each have one. Mine for use will be the work laptop and his will be the new one.  Naturally it may take more than just Christmas money for a new laptop but that's always a good reason to save money.