Finished Objects aka FO's

Not that I don't think you would know what an FO was, except that it took me forever to find out...mainly because I'm too stubborn to ask (teachers make terrible students)...I was thinking of creating a little dictionary on the side bar of all the clique-y acronyms that we knitters use, just in case...I'll put in a couple and you guys help me out :) Being a special ed teacher fills me with the desire to let everyone in on all those secret squirrel things...
I finished this last week ...


...and it was such a joy that I decided that I needed one as well. I adapted it from the elann free pattern. It's exactly the same (ahem) except that I changed the sleeve join and I decided on only a couple of inches of ribbing at the sleeve aaaand I may have added some stitches into the sleeve circumference... It was my first crack at attached I-chord and at joining a sleeve the "afterthought heel" way. I think it turned out really well but since I can't ever follow a pattern or ever do the same thing twice, I'm just going to change a whole peck of things and make one in my size. Now, I told you that so I could tell you this...I had the idea in my head for the sweater but no yarn yet had called to me...and then the fates created the most dangerous and fiscally lethal combination there is...a yen for a certain yarn-y thing...and a fabulous new yarn shop from which to procure it *sigh* can't you just hear my money running away? It was destiny...(insert wavy fade to a misty field of fiber...) we had gone to visit family and since they know of my proclivity toward collecting yarn (it's my super power...well that and making forms, but that's a whole 'nother thing) my amazing and the bestest of all mother-in-laws (trust me--you're jealous of how cool she is :) took me on a little drive and we made it to this the most excellent of yarn stores. Now, this isn't my first dog and pony show, and I've purchased many a hank/skein/ball so I know a good thing when I see one. Plus, having already convinced myself that I wasn't going to get a yarn fix the whole time I was away (because when I googled yarn stores in that area, the closest thing was Toronto--kidding of course but you get my drift) I was primed and ready for just such a happening...long story short, I had a tiny little accident...I ran into a pile of Manos Del Uruguay which (or is it "that") I accidentally, on purpose, bought the whole lot of...I'm not only unashamed but I'd do it again :)


Doesn't it just holler "fall" to you? No? well, try squinting....