Last weekend the weather was typical November weather for Washington, wet and windy. We even had a tree blow down over the driveway. This weekend it's fall-the leaves are beautiful, the skies are clear and there's just a nip of coolness in the air. Perfect yard cleanup weather.

I finished the Sitcom Chic from Knitty.com. Fun, fast sweater to knit. Feels good on. The only thing I had to redo was the front edges. The first time I picked up about 120 stitches along the edges and it was just way too many stitches. Also, I bound off loosely. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I frogged and picked up the recommended 101 stitches, actually went back to my picked up stitches and knit 2 together, mostly at the sweater bottom since that's where the flairing was, to reduce to 101 stitches. Bound off snuggly and I am much happier with the finishing.

I have been asking family members who like handknits (and will take care of their handknits) to let me know if they have any requests for Christmas. My mom is always so reluctant to say what she wants, "it's so much work!" But, knitters know we just need an excuse to buy yarn and we have to knit something anyway. She stopped by last night and tried on my Sitcom - she liked it. It fit her well, she loved the yarn, the sleeves were long enough. She said if it were hers she would want the neck to be a bit higher. I'm tempted to take out the neck and front edgings and make that neck a bit higher and voila! Christmas for mom done. And, I made a long sleeve version and once done I wished I had gone with the more fashionable 3/4 length sleeve.

So, while I ponder which way to go on the Sitcom I am knitting a Baby Dale of Norway for our newest family member. It's a fun, fast knit and the yarn is very nice to work with-albiet a bit splitty- but I can handle it.

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