The vote from yesterday's cushion poll:

3 in favor of Chequers
6 in favor of Snakes and Ladders
1 abstention

Snakes and Ladders it is! Expect an inside the box color tour of the project soon!

In the meantime, I just couldn't resist getting another project started over the weekend. (Anyone who has looked at my WIP list will notice that it has grown dramatically over the last week or so. Not sure why, except that I've been feeling inspired by all the fibery goodness in my house right now). It seems like I swatched for Audrey forever-ago and then couldn't break the cast-on barrier. So in an attempt to get myself kick-started with this project I decided to choose something smaller than the body -- a sleeve.

Audrey's First Sleeve

All that ribbing makes it look amazingly long and narrow. I suspect some blocking will be in order before I put the project together. The only interesting part of the sleeve is the decreases in the cap:

Audrey Sleeve Cap

Once again Kim Hargreaves demonstrates her shaping cleverness. I'll be looking forward to doing set in sleeves for once.

And just in case you missed my post on the Audrey blog, I thought I'd also share an extreme closeup of the decrease detail, just because I think it looks so neat and clean.

Extreme Closeup of Sleeve Cap Decreases

I really did enjoy knitting with the Calmer. It really just flew off my needles once I discovered that it had an excellent working relationship with my Denise needles. I'll be looking forward to getting back to it. I was planning to alternate between Phil'Onde pullover pieces and Audrey, but today I decided that I need my Phil'Onde pullover for my trip to San Francisco over Memorial Day weekend (I'd love to have both tops, but there's no chance in a very warm place that I will have the time to get both finished in two weeks). So everything else is going to come in second until "Le Pull" is complete and I can be Springy Green in California!