I guess I am not cut out for this posting every day stuff. The hard part is remembering to take pictures while it is light out! I always forget!
I usually blog in the evenings and by 4:30 it is already too dark for pictures. sigh.
This weekend I went to Seattle on a whirlwind car-buying (not for me), REI visiting, ferry-going trip. We flew down Thursday night, bought a car Friday morning, drove to Bellingham, hopped on the ferry and cruised back to Juneau by Sunday night. Whew!
The ferry was lovely, I’d never taken it for such a long ride before:

Sorry about the crappy picture. It was really nice and we had mostly good weather. Unfortunately for me the view I saw was mostly this:

The Malaspina (the ferry we rode) has wifi(!!!) so it was pretty much a homework cruise for me and my bff (it was her car). I think we did a solid 14 hours of homework on Sunday. Crazy. I’m pretty sure we had fun though. There is cocktail lounge in the ferry.
I don’t think I am going to finish my NaKniSweMo sweater this month. I got to knit on it a bit on the ferry while I wasn’t doing homework but I’ve hit a bit of a snag. If you remember I am working on Snow White. Well, I was very worried that it was going to be too small so I cast-on for the size M. I got up through the waist decreases and tried it on, now I think it is too big!
Actually in the hips and waist it is a pretty good fit but if I knit the chest according to the pattern I think that it will be too big. I’m thinking that it might be a good idea to knit the top section as per the S size of the pattern.
Basically between the waist for the M and the chest for the S there are half as many increases. I was thinking that I could just treat every other decrease row as a “work-even” row and end up with the same length and the right number of stitches but I’m afraid it will muck up the lovely shaping which is pretty much what attracted me to the pattern in the first place.
The other option would be to rip back to the waist decreases and work a few extra rows of those so that I still have the hip measurement from the M size but the waist for the S.
Any advice for me? Will my original plan work?
In the meantime I have put the sweater completely on hold and have been working on an older WIP:

Long lost Thermal
Last night I finished this sleeve and today I cast on for the 2nd. Is the end in sight?!
The days are getting short and dreary around here. People are gearing up for ski season (yay!) but it’s still raining. It’s really pretty as long as you get out while it’s light!

It’s pretty in the dark too but it’s hard to take pictures.