I'd be happy to send you the pattern.It's $10, and you can use Paypal to send it to my email address jeri.riggs@verizon.net, and I'll send you a pdf version. Email me!

Barbara McKie,a nationally known quilter and one of my dear friends, offered to beta-test my Diagonal Sweater pattern. Didn't she do a marvelous job? The sweater turned out gorgeous, and fits her perfectly because the pattern is written to allow for customization in every dimension. So,you can use any gague yarn and needles and knit to your own measurements! Bravo, Barb!

Back of the sweater showing the bias stripe patterning. If you would like to knit your own version

My blue heaven...in the quest for the perfect blue I have dyed these beauties....

Dyeing continues to thrill me. Here is a run of purple and green shading to turquoise. Melanie ( http://www.melanietesta.com/mtype/ )and I discussed using LWI versus direct dyeing, but I still enjoy the immediacy of direct dyeing. Maybe LWI is in my future!

My latest batch of scarves is here being guarded by my kitten Sha, placed here for relative scale. He's about six months old, and of the same relative softness as the velvet on the scarves. Too much fun! Now I have to figure out which ones I want to keep and which ones I want to sell or give away as gifts. Decisions decisions. If you want one sent me an e-mail, jeri.riggs@verizon.net.I'm selling them for $30, including postage, in the continental US. And now back to my current knitting project which of course revolves around knitting up a vest in white rayon chenille and then dying that. I've been having so much fun with dying all of the scarves, I now have some more ideas about color combinations. I just wish I could knit faster! More on that later.

Colors used included evergreen, chartreuse, intense blue, mixing red, golden yellow, and deep purple. Not all at once of course! That would probably give me a very rich and deep mud. Which might not be such a bad idea for next time! I can see how this would become like p�t� chips you can't eat just one..