Normally, I'm not a good swatcher. However, since I'm still a little restless with what I'm presently knitting, I actually sat down and spent some time yesterday swatching. Here's a bad picture of a swatch of the Classic Elite cotton yarn I won at the Knit-In over the weekend. I'm hoping I can stretch the ten balls into a little sweater with three-quarter length sleeves. After knitting up the swatch and thinking about possible patterns, I started asking myself whether I should really start knitting yet another top for myself this summer. Aren't there some other people I should be knitting for, that I've planned to knit for?! So I ambitiously started another swatch, this time of the baby wool called for in some summer sweaters I'd planned to make for the boys. Not sure that I'm 100% ready to work at this gauge again, but if I wait too long, the boys will grow too big for the size I'd planned and then I won't have enough yarn. Hmmmm....

I'm thinking of rededicating the rest of the summer (except for the planned knitalongs, of course) to baby knitting. The boys' summer sweaters first, then the minimono set which still has to be finished, another baby sweater for another baby on the way in the family, and then there's the second bug sweater and giranimals jacket that I'd love to finish up.

Oh, I finished the second sleeve of the Becky sweater too. A girl can't swatch all day, you know!