Longing to Completion

I had been admiring the sweater pattern A Cardigan for Arwen for several months, and just couldn't find a copy of the magazine that had the pattern in it. So, I watched and admired all the other knitters on Ravelry knit up the sweater, longing for my own.

Then at a going away party given by my friend Jen, who owns an incredible yarn shop back in CT, Woolworks, Ltd. all the women I would knit with on Thursday nights gave me the pattern and the yarn I needed to make it. What awesome women!

Although it took me a year to start knitting it and a month to finish it, here are pictures of the finished product.

Thank you Thursday night knitting friends back at Woolworks, I never would have been able to do it without you.

Start School? and a Knitting update

The scent of sharpened pencils. The smell of a new, unused notebook. The feel of a new workbook freshly printed and never been opened. These are the things that remind all of us of a new school year about to begin.

We received our new school year curriculum last week. All three kids have what they need to start the new school year. So what seems to be the delay? Me! I just am not ready.

Is it because it will be Faith's first year in school? The dreaded first day of kindergarten. Even though we home school, the feeling is still there, my youngest is actually old enough to be starting school. {tears}

Haley starts 6th grade, technically middle school in the "real world". Each of our kids is so different, I'm not sure what to expect with Haley and these uncharted waters for my 11 year old daughter. She is now old enough to begin attending youth group at church too this September. Scary!

Jacob is starting high school. He won't have to deal with the unknown of being a freshman in a "real" high school setting, that brings us all some peace of mind, but he does have a new work load and course credits to earn. Pressure!

Not sure when our first day of school will be. Maybe I can spend September just planning field trips and we can put it off for another month? (Yeah right like the principal, a.k.a. dad, will let that happen.)

On the knitting front:

Still knitting away on Arwen. Not crazy about this pattern however, but I will continue as it is written and see what I get when it is all done. Here is a picture of the progress, I'm pleased with my first sweater that has cable all the way through it.