Knitting group was lots of fun this week with visits from Sandy and her Smooch and Claudia with her tiny tank. Boston knitbloggers rule (make hang ten gesture here)! Since I don't have much of anything on my needles nowadays, I brought.... (drumroll, please) native for a little session of weaving in ends. I've still got a ways to go, but at least I've made another start on it.

So here comes the deal. While I continue plugging away at these ends on native, I get to start the ribby cardie. You see, Deborah wrote to join the knitalong and mentioned that she's already got the ribby on her needles. After some "why can't I" whimpering, I cooked up this plan. Now that I've got the yarn for the boys' pipsqueak sweaters, I'll focus most of my knitting on that, but I'm going to allow myself to knit one piece of the ribby cardie each week (a sleeve, one front panel, etc.) up to the point where the yoke should begin. So when the rest of the ribby cardie gals can join in in August, I'll still have the yoke and neck and front bands and zipper and other finishing to do. Still knitting along, just doing a little homework over the summer.

So for those of you wagering at home, that's #2, #3 and #7 from the to-do list moving to the active pile.