My wife's sweater jacket is coming a long. I'm not spending as much time on it as I would like, but that is partially due to the increase in exercise that I have been making myself do. The exercise is effecting the progress on this project because it is my TV knitting. I was at the hair salon the other day and when the young lady was finished and showed me the results for my "approval", I noticed that the bottom of my face looked fat, at least to me. This has encouraged me to increase the amount of time I spend on the tread mill. I also want to start some stomach flattening exercises, as i have a little bit of a belly.

My truck/travel knitting, the cabled mittens for my great aunt-in-law are coming along nicely. I took them to a medieval event this last weekend and got to where I'm to make the thumb opening, but had to stop, as I needed some scrap yarn, which I didn't have with me. I do have to admit that I had to change the yarn I was using on these mittens. The first yarn was a nice baby blue, with a shiny fiber running through it. I thought that it would show off the cabling nicely, and it did.

The problem was that I didn't read the yarn recommendation of worsted, and the blue yarn is closer to a fingering weight. I have to say closer, as this is some mystery yarn that I have in my stash. I went back to my stash and found the left over, partial skein of gray from the sampler scarf I made for myself, and started using that for the mittens. I'm hoping that I have enough of the yarn, but if I don't I should be able to buy another skein.

A while back I had said that I was only going to work on two projects at a time, as this would allow me to make a good amount of progress on both, and was easy to separate in to in-house knitting and travel knitting. Well after listening to a past Knit Picks podcast, where charity knitting was discussed, I decided to go and look and see what options there were out there. I found the website Knitting for Charity, which had a nice listing of charities. I was originally looking for something breast cancer related, as I am heavily involved in breast cancer charities. I saw one that was for chemo hats, and another that didn't limit the type of project, as a patient would like a shawl or scarf as much as a hat. But I found one charity that I couldn't resist. The Snuggles Project is a group that promotes making small "pads" for cats and dog in shelters. I'm starting out with a simple garter stitch pad, but I think I may do something a bit more complicated for the next one.

I had the spang class. I think it went well. It looked like the 5 students picked up the technique, even though they weren't able to finish their learner project. They all seemed genuinely interested, and were interested in me teaching other fiber classes.