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Here we are, a finished object (finally)!  This is the Sweater Which Taught Me Humility, the Sweater That Wanted To Be Naughty, etc. etc.  (Excuse the dorky photo of me posing as if I were the DB model ... this is obviously why DB employs other people as models instead of myself! I can't seem to manage "sultry" or "pouty.")

Some notes:

1.  I loved this yarn!  It was really beautiful to work with, knit up extremely fast despite being a dk-weight yarn and despite my mishaps along the way.  I highly recommend getting your hands on some of this if the opportunity arises.

2.  I loved knitting this pattern.  There's something about ribbing that holds my interest.  With not too much shaping (only on the shoulders), including on the sleeves which were worked straight with the same matching decrease row as the body, this was an easy take-along knit (key to me gettting projects done with the kiddos around).

3.  Jury is out on the fit of this sweater.  I knit the size for a 36" bust which was an actual finished size of 37.5".  It seems a little large ... and I think that I keep knitting large sweaters because I'm nervous that a sweater might be too small.  But check out the sleeves!  I did the copycat-pose of the model so that you could see the sweater contrasted with the actual model here:

What's up, Debbie, with my sleeves?  I followed the pattern to the T and I feel like the sleeves are obviously about two inches too long.  If you're making this sweater, make note of this and you may wish to alter the length of your sleeves.

4.  I made two kind of big mistakes on this sweater ... thank goodness for Cate for a previous ingenious comment about the Persians, who when knitting their rugs always insert a mistake because only Allah is allowed to make something that is perfect.  Well, this isn't perfect, but that's okay.  I guess that I'm still not one of those knitters who rips out every single mistake.  (And I'm not showing them, either, here!)

5.  I give this sweater a big overall LIKE.  Time will tell how much I wear this sweater, but I'm going to proceed for sure with the capped sleeved top in order to have the matching set.  Again, I just love how this yarn knits up. I'll leave you with one more photo:

And updates on the Triada soon!

Boy, I could write a haiku about these ...

twenty three dollars
over the next forty years
50 cents per year

... right?

At least, that's what I'm telling myself over and over again to justify the price on these puppies.  When what I really need are a pair of size 8's ... and I thought this would be the month.  Size 8's, you'll have to wait until next month, I guess.  (This is really my own darn fault for going overboard on all that Cotton-Ease at Hancocks for 30% off ... does anyone know, by the way, if they still have any more?  Never mind, I don't really need to know.)

Then, as if one surgery only a week ago weren't enough, my Big Sweetie (yes, that's the DH of the household) had another surgery scheduled this Wednesday. (He's the kind of man who thinks that two surgeries in a week is a breeze.)  This one was supposedly not going to be a big deal, just taking off a little bit of Basal Cell Carcinoma off the top of his head (remember, he was diagnosed several weeks ago).  He had one other spot taken off, which required only a tiny office visit and a few stitches.  Obviously (we know this now) when skin is taken off the scalp, a longer incision is required.  The little tiny appointment turned into a three-hour saga (kids in tow) and twenty stitches.  The Big Sweetie then looked like this by Wednesday night:

1) Total number of books in your house: I don't know exactly, but I know that my  house is overflowing with them and we're always trying to sort a few out.  Maybe 600?  800?  We're a bookish family, so I think a lot.  Between just my kids, we probably have 150.

2)  The last book you bought was- well, because of the massive overpopulating of the books in our house, I'm not sure I can answer that.  I'm a regular patron of my local library, and once I figured out that "Search Prospector" will bring any book from any library in my state to my library's front desk to me for free, this has been the source of most books.  But I can tell you that I bought Debbie Bliss's Special Knits recently.  As well as the Yarn Harlot's new book. 

3) What was the last book you read before reading this?  Boy, Cathi, you were embarrassed about chick lit?  Check out my most recently completed work of fiction:  La fiancée du pirate. (Just the title so cracks me up.)

4) List 5 (or 6) books that you read often or that mean a lot to you.

Don Quixote, volumes I and II.  Mainly because it's been on my mind lately and I've blogged about it a ton, but I do have to say that this is my most favorite "literary fiction" book that I've read as an adult.  Cervantes is amazing.  The book is hilarious, while at the time incredibly thought-provoking about issues that are still incredibly modern considering that the book is 400 years old.  (I recommend trying it in Spanish if you can!  There's a lot of bilingual editions out there.)

100 Years of Solitude.  Mostly for the same reasons as above, except that it's not nearly as old.  But Garcia Marquez is a genius, and the genre of "magical realism" is my favorite kind of fiction.  (Again, I recommend trying it in Spanish if you can!)

The Chronicles of Narnia.  Because these were the books that I read over and over again as a child, and please don't laugh, I actually thought that I might wander into an enchanted wardrobe one day when I was ten years old (it doesn't matter that I didn't really know what a wardrobe was).  I credit these books for my love of books.  (I see that Heidi just found this on audio book ... I. Must. Get. Those. Now.)

Anything by Bill Bryson, but namely English: The Mother Tongue or A Walk In The Woods.  Both of these books are about completely different subjects (the first, about the English language and how wacky it is; the second, about the author's adventures while attempting to walk the Appalachian Trail) but he is my favorite author that is alive today, and one that I would treasure being able to meet one day.  I read his books and re-read them all the time.  In a Sunburnt Country, about Australia, is also good, as is A Short History of Nearly Everything.  (I know I'm cheating by listing all these books as one.  Hey, it's my meme.)

Body-for-Life, by Bill Phillips, which I list because I happen to refer back to it all the time, and it's the book that I credit for putting me on the right track for eating well and exercising well.  It's an incredibly simple fitness concept, but if you can follow it, you'll be in the best shape ever.

I wish I could choose one favorite feminist book, but I can't, so let me just give a few favorites as maybe one will pique your interest: 
     1) Gyn/Ecology, by Mary Daly, which is a really crazy feminist must-read.  That's all I'll say there ... the author has a really amazing world perspective which, while being completely crazy, makes sense in a way.  Highly recommend you checking it out, but be forewarned that, again, it's rather crazy. 
     2)  This Sex Which Is Not One, by Luce Irigaray, which I find really fascinating if you can also get some good articles or other books to help explain her philosophy ... this is the theory that I used to analyze a coupla books in my MA Thesis, and it's the kind of theory that will completely warp the sense of reality that you grew up with and make you see things in a whole new light. (I just love that.)
     3) Anything by Judith Butler, and in particular Gender Trouble.  A very influential book in postmodern feminism.
     4) And let's not forget anything by Barbara G. Walker, especially the amazing book Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (yes, it's the same Barbara Walker), which I can't believe that I still don't own! ...
and I'll stop myself before I could go on and on here ...

6) Who are you going to pass this onto and why?  Let's go with a few more Colorado bloggers here ... let's ask Amanda (if she hasn't done this meme yet) because she's going to be starting her MA at CU in English next fall ... Kirsten, because a girl with a yarn-eating cat has to have some good reads as well ... and Michaele, because don't we all want to know what real professors read? And, because I'm hoping that Michaele will update me on my feminist thoery. (Will you share a few good books, Michaele?)  As always, at your own leisure and feel free to ignore the tag if you wish. :)