I didn't promise you a rose garden...

...but when I stepped out my front door the other day, lookee what I saw!



And here are some delightful pics of my delightful Beckybean!







Okay, I admit it. The pictures of the beautiful roses and the adorable baby are meant to be distraction devices. I don't want you asking about the sweater I was supposed to be knitting for the Cherry Tree Hill contest. You see, I was knitting it. I knitted nothing but it for the past couple of weeks. I even modified my original design, shortening the sleeves and changing the neckline. I think it's a better design now -- or at least a more saleable one. And under normal circumstances, I'd've been finished with plenty of time to spare. I've had lots of evenings free to knit, and had lots of time this past holiday weekend, too.

The X factor has been the overwhelming nausea that New Baby has been throwing my way to let me know he's in there. Unfortunately, nearly all of my knitting time is in the evening -- my mornings are full of Becky (which I love), and my days are full of work. And evenings are when I'm the most nauseous. Knitting exacerbates it. So I haven't been able to knit a lot of times when I should have been knitting. So the sweater didn't get done.

What happens now? Well, I put the sweater aside and did a gauge swatch for the Hill Country Socks this morning. I'll work on those this month as much as I can, and hope I get them finished by the 30th. Then I want to knit a nice sweater for me, and socks for my mom (her Christmas '06 present, much overdue -- I'll work on them at the same time as the sweater...mostly I hate having just one project to work on at a time), and I still have the kaftan for Becky, and eventually, I'll finish the sweater and publish the pattern. I haven't decided if I'll self publish or submit somewhere, but I do think it's a good design, and I do think people will like it.

posted by Laura Y. @ 4:33 PM