Well, I finished the camisole I was knitting.

It's a lovely piece of work and the colour is an attractive one- I used Lion Brand's Microspun yarn, which is an acrylic microfiber, in their Lilac colour. Unfortunately my initial mistake of knitting the back at the wrong size (I lost track of whether I was supposed to cast on for 103 or 113 stitches, I think), plus the gauge being a bit larger than the pattern called for, means that even knitting the front piece at a size that fits me didn't help. It fits in front but the back is awfully loose. Since it's the sort of colour my sister likes and my mother has corroborated this, I'm going to wait for August and give it to my sister then (she's pregnant and due in February- August is going to be swelter season for her). In the meantime I have a vest to work on and lovely dark green Egyptian cotton to do it in, and anyway I can always knit the camisole again in yarn that fits the gauge better, with different needles as need be. And since I'm looking at a 14-hour train ride to Toronto next Saturday, I'll be bringing along a few balls of Divine, too. Might as well get back to work on that sweater for ocean_song, eh?

My mother, meanwhile, spotted one of the other patterns in the issue of Interweave Knits that had the camisole. She's quite interested in the Mandarin faux cardigan and has offered to pay me for the yarn if I knit it for her, only she wants it in a different colour than the magazine has. I'm going to look for Trendsetter Oceano today at yarn stores in Manhattan if I can find any within reach between 'arrival in city' and 'meeting ahmeemee'. Mom's expressed an interest in a sort of salmon-pinkish colour and I want to see if that's an option or not.

Dad hasn't said anything about more knitting, but the voices in my head have been pretty insistent on me knitting the multi-coloured slippers for felting at his size, so he doesn't really need to say anything.

Now a question, since LJ's bein' stupid and I don't have the patience to force open a tab in Mozilla and work up a poll there. I have a tendency to knit whenever I've got a spare moment in which I'm not writing. While I'm good at drawing- several of my user pics including this one are my own work, and you can see more of my art at http://www.megaloceros.net- I'm nothing like the people on my friendslist who do art or cartoon commissions. Would you, or anyone you know, ever consider commissioning some piece of knitting work? Something relatively small, mind, like a hat or gloves or socks or something- sweaters take forever unless they're done in Big Fecking Yarn on Big Fecking Needles, and my one blanket experience took me two and a half months to do even though I was knitting day and night to meet a deadline. I'm just wondering.