My health is finally starting to feel closer to normal. I have been able to get more work and fun in, as well as more focus for knitting. That is the back neck shaping on Imbat. I am pleased with how the short rows worked out on neck edge. This sweater is rather simple looking, but I am hoping that people will appreciate the details that I have used in it.

This year feels a little like a wash on the knitwear design score, but I have been able to do some work at home with the kids that was really necessary, and taking the time to really heal was so important. So, I'm trying not to feel bad about the only one publication and instead look forward to next year and find a way to balance my work at home with this other work.

We are still reading Rainbow Valley and I am getting eager to get through it to finish the series with the kids. I started reading Bearing God: The Life and Works of St. Ignatius of Antioch the God-Bearer last week, on his feast day, and am really enjoying it. It is not a difficult read, and is wonderful because he is both the successor to the first Apostles, but also a first person witness of Jesus, as he was a child who heard Jesus in person. Desert Queen is slowly being read at night, before I fall asleep.

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// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 11:17 AM