While on vacation I only took 2 projects and that was a difficult choice. I hated to leave Ribby behind but I knew I was too far along to make it a trip project, and I thought I might need something easy but yet not utterly boring. I choose to make another Klaralund because of the issues with the first one, being 6 bazillion sizes to big. When I got home I only had about 10 inches left on the second sleeve to finish and it would be done. I have a pre seaming picture.....

I am quite pleased with this one. It may be a touch small but I have yet to block it and hope to get a little there, and well if I ever lose that planned weight loss it would help as well.

I wanted to leave for vacation at a good stopping point on Ribby. So I stayed up late the night before liftoff, I needed to complete the 2 front panels of Ribby before I left. I needed to have just the sleeves to finish when I got back. I was successful. I am still not thrilled with how the stockinette looks on this project. I feel amateur (I am I know) that my stockinette is bumpy, loose then tight just not smooth and flowing. I started to wonder if it was just the yarn, or partially the yarn since the stockinette on my Klaralund looked so nice. I have started to wrap the string around my pinky and I think it helps but I am not convinced I will truly wear this sweater when it is complete, because well it looks handmade in the beginner variety. which makes me wonder why I bought so much more Peruvian Wool to make yet another Ribby one day....

The bag I made for my grandmother which I thought would be a big success, deemed this response in a thank you letter from her: "Thanks for my bag Jeni. I sure like the bag you made for your mother, maybe one day you will make me one like it." The only difference between her bag and my mother's bag are color. One navy and Grey, one maroon an charcoal. Go figure.

This weekend I get to start Ribby's sleeves and hopefully start a Christmas blanket for my father, I would really like to use some of my other wonderful yarn just waiting to be made into a sweater.