progress report

Many of the 30 for 30 goals down and many still to go. Specifically, 16 and 1/3 and 7/10 and 3/5 and 2/3 and 2/3 still to go. Some recent developments...

No. 8:


A sweater for T and J's baby. It's knitted from the hood down and was an immensely satisfying project the whole way through.


Detail shot. I wasn't sure about the color combination when I first started, because my large stash of cotton offers a lot of choices and I was a little overwhemled by them. But I think it worked out OK; reminiscent of Charlie Brown without dooming the poor child to a life of having footballs pulled away right before he kicks them.

No. 26:


This guy started out 2007 looking like this...

...and ended it like this:

There were a few uncomfortable moments (for me; for our pal the lobster, I would like to think it was just one brief but very very uncomfortable moment) but overall, this was not as hard as I thought.

And finally, three and four for No. 18:


In J's lab.


Amazing glass sculpture (called Woven Heaven, Tangled Earth, by Susan Plum) at the fantastic Corning Glass Museum.