I had a funny pun with the word bear, and now I can't remember it. Anyway, I have a hood. It looks too large, but baby's heads are bigger in proportion to their bodies, and this is for a three to six month old, and it will also be covering the neck. I'm hoping it won't be gigantic on Lentilla.

I am not looking forward to even more sewing on this, and I really wish I had understood how it went together before I started, because I would have picked up the hood stitches from the neck, after joining the shoulders, and used short rows to shape it, and reduced most of the sewing. I already changed it from a zip up vest to a long sleeved pullover. I still have to join the shoulders and sew the hood to the neck. Then I will pick up the sleeve stitches and work down from there. I have a darker brown wool for the inner part of the bear ears, which I will pick up and knit, rather than knit and sew on the hood.

I've made a good amount of progress on the Crossandra sleeve, too, but it doesn't look too different. I'm focusing on the bear sweater, because I would like to have it ready in time to be a gift, but I will get to Crossandra again right after that. Saint Patrick is coming right along, though I need to recalculate a little bit on it. My finger is still a bit sensitive, and probably will be for a bit, but I only need a bandage now, instead of all the wrapping.

I'm a little more than a third of the way through both Taco USA and Caramel Pecan Roll Murder. Alternating between them seems to be working, and I read the mystery when I need something lighter.

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// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 9:45 PM