an FO!

Glory hallelujah, it seems impossible, but here it is:

Technicalities: I knit tightly, and my gauge is almost always too many stitches per inch, but it will fit the intended fine because she was between sizes. It was my second project with the Denise needles, and I didn't like them at all--the cables were too chunky to knit in the round easily, the tips blunted, the joins catchy. I guess they're fine as backup needles, but not my first choice. Anyone using the new needle set from KnitPicks?

This FO seems all the more astonishing because these days I'm too pooped to fold my laundry, because I've had the pattern for two years, bought the yarn this summer, and have promised it to the baby's mother a long, long time. It's so good to be done with it!!! And there's enough yarn left to make one for our baby B when he is ready for trips to the pumpkin farms in a couple of years. Now I have to quickly transition to the alpaca muffler for my brother, because I just heard yesterday that he's coming from China for Thanksgiving.

I love my brother. He's a peripatetic spirit, a world traveler. He's delighted that we're having a boy, who will be (partly) his namesake. (Partly because the middle name we've chosen for baby B is shared by my father, my brother, and two of DH's best friends). When I told him I was pregnant, he told me he wants to be like Auntie Mame (yes, he's gay) and take this little one all over the world. He sent me an e-mail yesterday, and this was all it said:
1. Birth
2. Social Security #
3. Passport

Adventures await. I think I'm beginning to feel the Sprout moving, and it's freakin' me out.