Make Pictures While the Sun Shines

[akirlu]

While there are plenty of other things I could and should be doing on a Sunday afternoon, the fact that it's been sunny drove me to dig out the camera and do a bit of photo-documentation. My Ravelry projects page was sadly out-of-date, with many supposed wips (works in progress) in reality long since finished, and many more recent projects not showing at all, because I do like to include at least one project picture when I list a project, and decent photos are very nearly impossible when the sun isn't out. So the backlog grows while I wait for a sunny day on a weekend.

Today the sun came out. I've been busy taking pictures and posting them to Ravelry and updating my project pages as I go. I'm including a couple of images here so non-Ravelers can also get a peek. The shot above is Shoobie in a sweater I finished last winter, and the one below is a jacket, based on the Dr. Who scarf color progression, that I'm still working on. There's plenty of knitting still to do before Christmas, but at least now my listed projects are a bit closer to up-to-date.

Now I should probably do some grocery shopping and dig in to my Mandarin homework. Final exam is next Saturday so it's time for the Big Review.

Comments

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Shoobie's sweater is adorable (well, to be precise, Shoobie is adorable and looks smashing in the sweater). And I love the jacket so far. Can't wait to see pix when it's complete (or to see it for real at some point).

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Shoobie is, indeed, adorable. I can take no credit for it as he was very randomly bred, and long before we inherited him, but it has saved his life many times, because he's a bit of a contrarian little f*cker. Happily for him, he's too cute to kill. I am quite pleased by how the sweater looks on him, but I've got to go back and seam up the "arm"-holes because as it stands, they're so wide he slips right out of them with his usual carefree insouciance.

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

I think that adorableness in general is a lifesaver for most pets. It certainly is for Sophie.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, they can all thank the importance to human species survival of hard-wiring a resistance to infanticide. Anything with big eyes and a large-ish head relative to body size gets collateral protection. Certainly my mother periodically insisted that cuteness was the only thing that saved my kid brother.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Those are both awesome and also I love the infund...infub...thingie in blue you made from Teresa's instructions. How great you are making a jacket instead of a scarf! And have I told you lately how very much I love the socks you knit me?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Thanks! You were quite lucky to get those socks, you know. I had two different people, one of them a total stranger on the bus, offer me money for those as I was making them. It makes me wish the shop had had more of that yarn colorway when I bought that skein. Clearly it has broad appeal. I wouldn't mind a pair in those colors myself.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Did I ever post a photo of them? I should if I haven't.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Not that I saw, anyway. And yes, I would love to see them actually being worn and all.

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

Hi Shoobie! :D

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Shoobie always looks self-possessed. It's his birthright as the King of Everything.

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

I like the 'Doctor Who' jacket.

Shoobs does indeed look quite stylish and dignified in that sweater, something few dogs manage.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Shoob gets his magisterial grace from the inbred, bedrock certainty that he is the center of the universe and most important creature in it.

I have high hopes for the jacket, though it's got a bit more work to go than I previously thought. I had to stow it away in the hurried clean-up when a not wholly expected series of fan fund winners descended on the house, and I'm only just getting back and figuring out what needs to get done on it. Eventually I expect I'll put it in a fannish auction of some sort.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Love the pic of Shoobie in the sweater. Doesn't have that "why are you doing this to me" look so common in dogs modeling clothing.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the thing with Shoob. If he really minded it, it wouldn't still be on him by the time I got the camera ready.