I took this picture this morning. As you can see, the Shaped V-Neck is definitely getting there. I completed the last increase and am now in the last two inches or so before the seed stitch lower border. (As always, click to embiggen.) I have odd dreams of making this sweater a few more times in various yarns. I might just be tempted to buy some nice Brooks Farm yumminess next month at MD. Now wouldn’t that be an excellent combination?! Regardless, I’d seriously recommend this pattern! There’s nothing better in my book than a top-down, all in one cardigan.
I didn’t get quite as far as I would have thought last night. I wound up gabbing on the train home. While I did watch the Red Sox come from behind win against Cleveland last night, I wasn’t knitting but sitting with the MacBook (machine name ColonialOne) mucking around with a local installation of Apache/MySQL and WordPress 2.5 for a geeky, yet secret project. The frustrating part of it all was that I had the thing running without problems on Saturday. It then went into sleep mode until last night and all of a sudden, I couldn’t connect to the database. Hard to do anything bloggy without the database accessible. Finally at about the same time the Red Sox overtook the Indians, I had everything running again. I’m about a third of the way through the secret project and it has proven to be a good learning experience in a web language I don’t/didn’t know: PHP. But then again, not too terribly long ago (oh way back in 2006), I didn’t know C# and here I am making a living programming in it.
There I go digressing again. Sorry everyone who glazed over, c’mon back.
Anyone who’s been reading this blog for a while has followed my quest for the “perfect” commuter bag. I’ve alternated between the BIG PURSE and the LITTLE PURSE with everything in between. I think I’ve finally struck on a happy medium. Medium really is the answer. I have a medium sized purse where I can carry the essentials (which does include a small knitting project) and a small tote. As you can see, the small tote is large enough for a decent sized knitting project plus other stuff, including as you can see, the current book. My umbrella and travel mug will also fit in as well. This bag is the more durable version of what had been my absolute favorite tote bag and what I returned too over and over again: the small shopping bag. They’re fabulous, but they fall apart all too fast. This LLBean bag is about the same size but is heavy duty canvas so I don’t fear putting the umbrella in lest the bag fall apart on the way. Love it.
With all that love about, I have to get back to work 
Craft on!
