Matt's not the only one that cycles!

I'm trying to finish up my goals for the end of the year, so I've been cycling thru my WIPs and I'm feeling pretty good about my progress.

My Tangled Yoke is on it's first sleeve, Matt's Kathmandu Gansey is going really well (and he's mighty excited... he's already said "I know I'm going to wear that one a lot". Best husband, ever!) and I'm steadily working thru Hey Theresa! I've even been working on Babette (only the 2 round squares to finish up).

I'm also struggling trying to finish Patrick. This is the project that I bought the yarn for Matt as a Christmas gift, so I really need to get this done before this Christmas.

Patrick's first sleeve
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I admit that I have a love/hate relationship with Patrick. I love the design. I love the yarn. I don't love them together (the Beaverslide yarn is too heavy to knit at this gauge). I also don't love the way the pattern is written at all. I would suggest that Black Purl Design patterns are not for the novice knitter. They are full of errors (most are missing info... something that a copy editor would've picked up on). However, it's soooo close to being done (just the sleeves!)that I can finish it by the end of the year (as long as I work on it here and there).

Meanwhile, I'm going thru "cast on withdrawl". I might need to start something new soon! Finishing is fun, but I sure do love the rush of a new project!!!!

Oh, and as a blog note: I use Internet Explorer, and so that's how I designed my blog. However, Matt uses both IE and Firefox. I saw my blog on Firefox, and noticed it doesn't work real well. I'm going to give up the whole self design thing, and just switch over to a Blogger template this weekend. Hopefully that will be more user friendly for those using different browsers! I'll leave the coding to the experts!