Well the world of the wips is not so wonderful. The FLS is having a dye lot issue. Yes, I said it.

I can’t show you a picture because I frogged it. Well at least I frogged the offending portion. All of the dye lots are the same, but one skein is noticeably darker. And of course this is yarn that I can’t seem to find anymore of. So sucktastic.

I have another unused skein. But it’s not gonna be enough to finish the sweater. Yes, it’s a sad tale. A tale all knitters have heard. There’s a tear in my beer and all that rot.

Fortunately (???) I have so much homework and another sooper seekrit thing to knit, that I can almost pretend that this isn’t happening. Right?

That particular Tom Jones song will be forever tainted by the memory of Hugh Jackman singing it in Flushed Away. But most of my projects have songs attached to them. Songs that play in my head while I’m knitting on them, if it’s quiet around. Don’t tell me I’m odd. I already know that.

Now that the sooper seekrit deadline knitting is completed, I can go back to the lady. I had planned to have her done in time for the Yarn Harlot on Thursday. But alas, the sock had to be knit and photographed, so I was focused and determined. What? You say I have five entire days until the Yarn Harlot arrives? Well yeah, I do. But I also have a research project for Educational Psychology *and* a test in my Environmental Sciences class – due and to be done on Monday respectively. So tomorrow I will do laundry and research and studying. Fun times.

Would you like to see a crappy flash photo of my February Lady progress? See – that’s the benefit of a blog. You can comment and scream “No!” but by that time it’s too late. You’ve already seen it. Like the memory of your Uncle Bubba wearing the aforementioned big undies. Your retinas are already scarred.

I’m hoping that the concept of a WIP Wednesday might keep me honest and keep me working on one thing for awhile. Which we all know is the way you actually finish things. I don’t have a regular knitting group anymore, so no one asks me about the forlorn wips sitting at the bottom of my basket that never see the light of day again.

So today’s wip is the February Lady Sweater – aka the FLS. As you might know if you are a regular reader (bwahahahaha – that was funny – regular reader – snort!) – wait where was I? As you might know, mine is made of Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Worsted in Cranberry. Last night I finally separated the sleeves and now it’s body talk time!

Everyone swears that once you get to the lace it goes like whoa. I’m hoping that’s true. It would be nice to finish something. So just for posterity’s sake, here’s where we are on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008. Yoke done, including first lace repeat. Sleeves separated. Body in progress. Ok, I get it. You’re bored. Just look at the pretty yarn.

Oh and the earworm of the day… Body Talk by the Deele. Takes you back to the roller rink, doesn’t it?