Knitter Monkey

After (finally) binding off on the first sleeve of Leo earlier today, I started on a Clapotis I'm making as a Christmas gift out of Malabrigo in Burgundy Dash. Can I just say, WOW. This yarn is 100% wool, and it is insanely soft. It's also gorgeous, but wow is it soft. I want more and more and more and more. Sweaters, scarves, hell, knit me a pillow out of this stuff. Anyway, the Clapotis is starting out fun. It's the first pattern I've done that's more than just knitknitknit or, in Leo's case, knitknitknitpurlpurlknitknitknitpurlpurl. Stitch markers and yarn overs and dropped stitches and generally good times. From reading the forums, I kind of got the impressiou that this might be a long-ish knit, but from what I can see it's knitting up pretty quickly. I did the first few rounds of increase rows in two hours; I might even be able to finish it by next weekend. Deeeeelightful.

And no, I'm not giving up on the sweater - it's just that we talked about it and it's basically I can either finish just the sweater or knit gifts for everyone else I know, so we decided I should finish the first sleeve, then do the gifts, then go back to the second sleeve. Since I've spent the last two weeks trying to do decreases in ribbing with Cotton Cashmere (which I will probably never use again because I can not stand its difficult-to-work-with construction), the Malabrigo and the yarn overs are like a little knitting vacation.