Technique Time

Here's progress on the pullover: front and back complete, and starting on a sleeve. I love me some eyelets! (Although you should've seen the first couple of frogged attempts, as the yarn-overs were zig-zagging all over the place.)

Technique time! See how the shoulder seams lay so nice and flat? It's a three-needle bind-off (Google for it). Seeing as how quite a few people have used this, I decided to try it instead of my trusty standby, the backstitch. Et voila, I love it! The seam isn't thick, the stitches line up with each other and best of all, the neatness of the back:

Waiting for me is a bunch of e-mails to reply to and a long Bloglines list to read. It's been busy: work, travel plans, taxes. I've inhaled enough smelly marker for a dozen high-school kids on yet another Big Project; paid for overpriced plane tickets to Germany (Europe in the summer, suggested BF. Climbing! Foreign yarn!); and did my taxes. (grumble grumble) Apparently I make way too much money--and that's a stretch--as a freelance designer so there goes a good chunk of change. Note to all freelancers: get a receipt for everything.

Reading: A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice. I finished this in three evenings. It was mainly out of curiosity that I picked this up at the library, since his mother is one of my favorite authors. His first effort is fine; there's a bit of uneven pacing and some choppy transitions. I started to skim pages in the middle and toward the end--boredom, perhaps--but it's a good start to his career. Still reading Strange/Norell and gradually getting more involved with it. I love those names!