My feed didn't seem to update the last time I posted. We shall see if wakes up this time or not.

The knitting guilt continues, poor poor Cutaway it has seen no love and it is so close to being done. I started another new small project this week, one with a deadline of August 5th. It is the one Stacey is making for her niece. I sure hope mine turns out as cute. Here is the beginning of the back. It knits up fast, hopefully it knits fast enough to be done in time.

I have also finished up the first half of clue 3 for the Mystery Stole. I made a couple mistakes but I don't feel the need to rip it out or point them out for that matter. And this of course means Madli too has seen no time on the sticks. She will grow again one day. Especially if I take Cynthia up on her offer for us to race to the finish. This could get dicey, do you think she would notice if I dropped a stitch for her?

I also got to take my sleeves off the Lime Blue Cardi this week, I am loving this knit, I hope the Malabrigio doesn't pill as much as I am told it does, it can't it is too soft and pretty too. It is even starting to look like a Cardigan.

I have felt like most of my time has been either knitting or working, it makes for a boring to blog about life.

Mystery Stole 2 is so addictive. I can't stop knitting this thing!!! Hopefully tonight I will have both parts of Clue 2 finished so that I can go back to normally programmed knitting. I thought I would only do half then work on other projects but I can't. I will say it is going really fast, compared to Madli which now is the same thing over and over it is quite refreshing to have 50 rows of completely different knitting. Below is a crappy picture of the progress so far. I have some gaping holes on the right side of the top of my clovers I need to figure out some trick to get those all prettied up.

This picture is worse than I thought, sorry!

Dad's surgery went great, the doctor said it went perfectly, which we rarely ever hear when it comes to his health. He was in good spirits yesterday so that is encouraging. It may be a long 6 months of rehab though.

Only one new little bit of info the rest is all progress yada. I signed up for the Mystery Stole 2, I have my yarn picked out and I cast on, I may redo this though my provisional looks a bit sloppy. The yarn is actually darker green than the picture shows, darn camera it is smarter than me again.

I am up to 15 and a half repeats of Madli, that is exactly half way done for the body. I would really like to see this thing move along so I can get onto another lace project. I have bought some gray pearl color lace from handpainted to make my Grandmother a shawl for Christmas. Just need a pattern and the Madli done!

I am also getting through the Cutaway nicely, all that is left are the sleeves, and I am working on both now.

Over the long weekend I had plenty of time to work on both and was pretty happy with the progress. I am itching to finish both. I also want to start a new sweater out of my Estes purchases. I am currently thinking Hourglass with the Plain and Fancy we shall

see. The long weekend was wonderful I really needed the break and enjoyed every minute. So much that I am taking another 3 day weekend this weekend, and a 4 day weekend the week after. And in other good work news, my least favorite co-worker quit today!!

Hopefully a lot of knitting will go on this weekend, Dad will be having surgery (nothing life threatening, shoulder replacement, dude is my Dad old enough for this, does this mean I am old now too?) tomorrow which sucks but does mean I will be doing a lot of sitting around knitting. Grandma will be in town this weekend as well which is always great. I wish she lived closer. Have a great weekend!!