Vanilla flavored sugar and heavy whipping cream make the perfect cup of coffee.

I won! Thank you, Katie.

I’ve switched to gmail. I’m having a little trouble adjusting to the “conversations” thing (if you use gmail, you know what I am talking about). In short, I hate it. I can get used to everything else, but smushing all my comments into one “thread” because they have the same subject is difficult to sort out. I can’t tell which responses belong to what! Or if I’ve responded at all.

But my emails don’t bounce so I’ve got that going for me.

Which is nice.

As near as I can tell I have responded to all the wonderful comments, suggestions and support regarding Dish Rag Tag. I’m not positive that I have, but gmail seems to be. If you didn’t get a response from me, this is what I would have written:

Dear So-And-So,
Thank you so much for your support and feedback! I’ve really been upset about the future of DRT and you have made me feel so much better about hosting the race this summer!
Much Love, Emily

The Official Plan is now a $1 fee for participation, I have to figure out what to do for non-PayPal users (it seems silly to waste a stamp on $1). Maybe they could just tuck it into the team’s box as it travels through? And then a “Bake Sale” to raise the prize money. Individual Merit Awards have been donated by participants the past two years, so we’ll stick with that! Every thing else should be business as usual.

Thank you so much one more time, I love being a part of this community and I love Dish Rag Tag! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a pattern to write.

Sheesh, Emily, two posts a day for the past two days! Chatty, aren’t you?

Remember Elspeth? The link is to a pdf of the pattern from Rowan magazine.

I posted a picture of a swatch for this sweater on June 21, 2005. Well, it’s finished.

Are short cardigans still in style?

Elspeth v1.0 was finished and mailed to Mom on September 20, 2005. She was going to crochet the trim for me and send it back. Mom is a perfectionist so that took a while. Once it the trim was finished, I had to come to grips with reality of an enormous neckline (seems to be a trend with me). I frogged and reknit the sleeves with 15 fewer stitches and sent it back to Mom in November of 2007. On her last visit, Mom crocheted the trim at least three times (did I mention that she is a perfectionist). After another couple of weeks, I got around to blocking. In just four short years, I have a finished sweater! That’s got to be some kind of record.

It is so pretty and soft.

Sewing is a different story. With sewing, I can have a new top in three naps.

Butterick 5217

The neck is still too big even at the smallest size (it gapes funny) just how wide do these designers think shoulders are?! I’m not sure how to fix it in the next go-round on account of the pleats. I’ll have to give this some thought.

The yoke is made of pillowcase.

I am going to wear it to pieces, I love it so.