Sure I love lots of color, but a girl can always use a nice black sweater, so despite the new project push, I did a some more work on sooty mango. Here's the finished front.

Did that neckline about four times! Since the Mango pattern doesn't include sleeves, I'm roughly following the shaping from Cherry Picking (in the same book) for the top of the sweater. But the total stitch count is taken from Mango, so I had to fudge and refudge the shoulder and neck parts quite a bit to get the right number of decreases for the correct neck depth and width. Glad that's over! Now on to the sleeves...

But what about the project parade? Right! Well, while I work on the same old, same old, let me direct your attention to some amazing knitalong projects, including Rose's finished poncho, Melinda's beautifully seamed Phildar cardi raye and Kimberly's pink poncho in progress. Wowie - great work, ladies!