Phil'Onde Sleeve #1

First off, I hope all of you motherly types had a wonderful Mother's Day. I got to spend the weekend with mine. We spent Sunday afternoon at the Chicago Botanic Garden. It is absolutely beautiful there right now. The tulips are still out, the flowering trees are in full bloom and everything is getting green and happy. I was particularly taken with the Sensory Garden and Spider Island. I'd never been there before this early in the spring. It's definitely a treat! If you live in Chicago and have never made it that far north, it really is worht the trip. If you would like a few more images of the garden, you can also take a look at some lovely photographs taken by Dawn Mikulich of Chicago Uncommon.

It was a lazy weekend and I didn't do very much besides relax with Mom and Dad and knit. Right now, I find myself surrounded by ribbed sweater projects. Over the weekend, I buckled down and got serious about getting a move on so that I can wear these sweaters before spring and summer have flown. Here's the first sleeve of my Phil'Onde sweater.

One down...

I like the smooth color shading on the sleeve. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that in this size, I actually had some yarn left over from the 100 g ball with the color shading. I don't think I will have any more worries about having enough white.

I am thinking of casting on for the second sleeve before I do the front. It's not exciting, but there's no shaping until you get to the sleeve cap so it doesn't take much thinking, either.

If you want to see a lovely finished Phil'Onde sweater, check out Silvia's cardigan done in the Hyacinthe colorway.

Something interesting arrived at my house this weekend. There'll be pictures of that later this week.