Alas, my zigging and zagging was spiraling around in an unpleasant way. And my brain was also in a state of non-comprehension of the pattern, even after repeated clarification from Lucia.

Finally, she had a brainstorm and moved one little instruction from *here* to *there* and suddenly the whole thing made sense! She even figured out a way I could work both at the same time, but unfortunately one of them had a bit of a problem and will need to get caught up tonight.


Now here, to the left, you can see one of my first patterns; a baby stegosaurus! Yes, I know, he is missing eyes. I haven't sewn them on yet. The number of stegosauri I *need* to make keeps growing and so they'll all get eyes at once, I think. Pattern will be available somewhere online soon, so watch for it. He's SO DARN CUTE, isn't he??







And then here's a new project I'm working on
called BPT. It's a cabled cardigan, done top down with raglan sleeves. My friend kneesocky asked for some pattern interpretation and we discovered there was a pattern error; one of the markers they wanted you to put in was missing! Thus throwing off the whole thing. I figured it out by using nearly every stitch marker I own, flanking the cables and also putting markers where they suggested, and found that that ONE missing marker totally screwed up the whole thing.
On the plus side, I really am liking the pattern and it's nice to find a nice top-down pattern for once. And it solved a problem for me; making a perfect use for a bunch of lovely mulespun yarn I bought 3 years ago from Marr Haven.