So I said I was going to be manic-busy for the next couple of weeks, but I didn’t say why, since it deserved it’s own post.

I’m doing my first show! Oxford Kitchen Yarns is doing it’s first show!

Thus I am dyeing like a mad thing, trying to get enough stock together to make a good showing of it. Thus there won’t be any shop updates until after the 1oth.

Anyway here is the information you need:

When: Saturday 10th November 2007  (9.30am to 4.30pm)

Where: Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 0DG

How much:  £7 in advance / £5 knitting group discount / £9 on day

How to book (and get more info): I knit London.

There are workshops, and booksignings, and stalls (obviously ;) and entertainment, and exhibitions, and LOTS and LOTS of knitters. :)

And me. So please come by and chat if you’re coming along. It’d be lovely to see you. :)

(The images at the top? That would be the Oxford Kitchen Yarns sample banner. Or rather, bits of it. :)

Day 8: Get up. Watch Black Books - graft back of neck to second saddle, knit collar, and graft the underarms. W comes back from the allotment and tries it on. W looks foxy, and a bit like a jelly fish with all the loose ends hanging down. I go do other things for a bit.

On the way to friends’ son’s 2nd birthday, I pick up the stitches for the bottom inner edge. Have decided that the sleeve cuffs don’t actually need it. Knit for an inch or so. Swear at very old wool yarn that is only loosely plied and keeps breaking. Spend A LONG TIME weaving in ends.

Go see Lara after the party, and fail to sew the bottom edge to the inside of the sweater, twice. Abandon it for the night, and go back to chatting.

Day 9: After eatting, spend the rest of lunch finally sewing the edge properly. Jumper just needs blocking but I will leave it dry until W comes home so that he can have his final say before it gets wetted down and left to dry.

However… to all intents and purposes, NINE days after I started, I think the jumper is now DONE!

(Expect FO post in a few days, when there is daylight and W in the same place. :)

ETA: Having tried on the jumper I have decided that I AM STEALING IT FOR MYSELF - bwahahahh!!

Day 7: Get up at 7.30am. Put on Black Books. Knit till now. Do stuff on computer for ten minutes. Knit more. Thus have completed second half of second sleeve, plus shoulder shaping to the saddles, first saddle and half of the back section.

Still to do:

• rest of back neck section
• second saddle
• neckline
• bottom inner edge
• cuff inner edges
• graft back neck section to second saddle
• graft under arms

Black Books is doing something to my brain. ;)

*knits more*

Continuation of Day 5: W cooked dinner. *hearts him* He did the washing up as well. This left me to collapse in front of episodes of Black Books (end of series 3, and then the beginning of series 2. No, i don’t know why i did that either), and really get to work on the first sleeve, since it proved to be the right width.

The raised lines are twisted stitched where the needles change over. They should come out with blocking (she says.)

Day 6: Sleeve is 17″ having been knitted on the bus on the way home from town. I will do a little bit more after i finish my sandwich. It would be lovely to get a big chunk of the second sleeve done this evening.

Day 3: Am in back hole. Body somehow only 13 1/2″. Have ordered needles.

Day 4: Needles on their way. Go to knitting. Get body to 18″. Have to stop and knit something else.

Day 5: Needles arrive. Start sleeve. Wonder if it is too small even though I’m using the percentages method? Knit about 3″ and then leave for W to try when he gets home from work.  Take on large, time specific project (that I will talk about in the next few days), and suddenly have lots of other things to do. Realise I would like to finish jumper regardless. Worry at own sanity.