Yarn Along

As always, I look forward to participating in the weekly Yarn Along hosted over at Small Things.  I feel like I've rambled on too much on the blog this week, that ironically, I don't have much to say today about my projects.

 

I finished the dress of the faux "American Girl Doll" for Silje.  She's so in love with it, and is calling it Jenny's party dress.  I'm so pleased I got it done!  The pattern and notes are basically complete now, and I just have to finish putting my notes together before the pattern in sizes 18"doll and newborn-2T will be ready.   Although it won't be much work, it will be work requiring my whole brain at the same time, so  therefore I'm glad I have given myself almost 2 weeks to finish that work.  

 

In the mean time, I'm working once again on the second dress pattern, this time using worsted weight yarn.  I made so many mistakes in the last trial that I made a bunch of notes, and am working off of those notes now.  So far, so good.  I won't know if it's looking right until I finish the entire yoke, and take measurements again.  So we'll see if this actually gets finished, or ripped out sometime in the next week.  I really need to come up with a boy design after this one.  I wouldn't want my boys to be left out of the fun!

So this week for reading I've mostly been studying my notes, but I have been continuing my research on chickens.  It's just getting me more and more excited, so that's good!  I'm yearning for a good novel these days, though, as I'm not quite attached to Silje's read aloud book this week.  More on that on Friday.