I Just Can't Think of Anything Clever to Do with Eponge in a Title...

It must be a special year: my company has Good Friday off. In reality, what this means is that too many major holidays that we would normally get off fall on a Saturday or a Sunday, so we're forced to go with some non-standard days. But I'm not going to complain. After all, as my dad always and so wisely says: No one ever dies wishing they'd spent another day in the office...

Thus, here's a shot of what my morning will be filled with, instead of the usual email...

Idyllic Morning: A Knitted Sleeve and a Latte

In this case, I'm pleased to say that both the latte and the sleeve are of my own making. I've been getting more adventurous in my attempts to froth milk properly and I think I'm actually closing in on success. In spite of having a very nice machine (the Saeco Magic Deluxe is worth it's weight in gold, from my perspective -- and it's not a lightweight machine) for quitesome time, it's been only recently that I've decided that it's pretty pathetic that I can't make my own lattes.

And I really do need a good latte to enjoy while working on this *&^*!!#$* sleeve. It seems like during this whole project I've spent most of my time tinking or doing this:

Not So Idyllic Yarn Experience: Fixing Ribbing Mistakes

Apparently the combination of me, this yarn and a ribbing pattern that is not K2 P2 is just too much for my limited brain when I sit down to work on this project.

When I posted last about this project, I provided a link to the sweater on the Phildar site that apparently doesn't work very well (it does work, you just have to click to it twice for some reason, the first time it always wants to go to the English Phildar site where the image is not). Janet (who, by the way, has just completed the lovely Ballet Wrap Top from the most recent IK -- you really should run over and take a look. Don't mind me, I'm on vacation today, I'll wait) asked if I wouldn't mind posting an actual picture. So here one is, liberated directly from Phildar (but not hotlinked, I don't have many good web manners, but I try to avoid doing that).

Stolen from Phildar: A Picture of the Sweater

And if you are feeling up to clicking twice, I present the actual link again. While you're there, be sure to click on the Modeles Gratuits. Phildar always makes several of their nice patterns available for free, often some of the best ones out of their books, for the cost of just your email address. I'm quite taken with the Veste pattern that is also currently available... but am not sure I am ready to deal with more Eponge quite yet.