The bear sweater has a hood. However, I'm trying to decide if I am going to frog it and re-knit with short row shaping, rather than all the seaming. I finally started the sleeve on Crossandra at the air show, and am about a third of the way down the second sleeve. I have eight more repeats of the increases on my sweater before I divide for the sleeves and body. Saint Patrick is now more than 40% complete. So, I feel like this is a good progress week.

My sweater is going to be limited by the amount of yarn I have, so my plan is to get to the division of sleeves and body, then make the sleeves as long as I like, and return to the body and knit until I run out of yarn. The shawl is also limited by yarn quantity, so I am still weighing every chance I get.

There will be another baptismal gown made, this time for Dominic and Shawn's baby, and I am planning on starting that in July. For now, I have the yarn and pattern and will get needles ready soon. I'm trying to decide if I should also make one for Madelyn. It is looking more and more like Amelia and Madelyn will be baptized at the same time, possibly when their parents are received into the Orthodox Church. At this point, I am concerned that the sleeves won't fit Amelia by that time. So, maybe that will become Madelyn's gown. I need to figure this out with them.

While I made a lot of progress with knitting this past week, I think I read exactly one page in Taco USA. We are finished with air show, some of our kids are away, and more will be away the second week of July, and school is out for summer. I'm hoping to get more reading time. However, I found a great Cuban cookbook at the local thrift store for $1.99 and I'm excited to try some of the recipes.

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// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 12:23 PM