But enough about you

I finished knitting my first sweater! OK, it's actually my third sweater, but it's the first one that anybody will actually wear. The other two were misshapen holey things.

And it's about eighty degrees here today. I guess I'll have to wait for the gloomy weather to return before I can show it off.

Sorry about the headless picture, but when your photographer is two years old you have to take what you can get. :)

I went to my first French night at chez Miller last night. I've only had one quarter of French, so I was pretty quiet, but I really enjoyed listening to everyone else babbling away.

Here are some things I wanted to say, but couldn't. Maybe one of my more French-literate readers can help me with the translations, since I idiotically left my dictionary at Miller's.

• I am thinking about taking French 102 online.
  
• We have met before. Chris and I drove you home from Little Red Studio a few weeks ago.
  
• When the circular needle is no longer long enough, you switch to the double-pointed needles.
  

And then, for calibration, here are a few things I did successfully say in French:

• Wine, please?
  
• The cow eats the apple.
  
• Would you like to fondle my yarn?
  

French night is excellent and I'll definitely be going back -- in fact, we are hosting next time! -- but I'd really love to go to Spanish night. Unfortunately, it's on Wednesdays and conflicts with my architecture course, so it will have to wait until summer.

Does anybody want any yarn? I have a very large quantity of high-quality wool, silk, mohair, and assorted other fibers, in many colors. I find that when I start a new project, I'd rather buy just the right yarn than dig through my stash for something that's only almost-right. The yarn is too good to send to one of those knit-for-the-troops projects, which is what I did the last time my stash outgrew its storage space. Besides, tough military men don't wear magenta silk socks, or so I'm told.

Laura, I saw that book about knitting lingerie on your Amazon wishlist. That seems like a better use for magenta silk, no? (BTW, if you get that book, I definitely want to look through it.)

Or perhaps someone would like to make one of these?