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Look here I'm still working away on my cardi.  This last weekend I was able to finally finish the sleeves and then attach all the pieces taking care to not twist them or put a sleeve on backwards or in the wrong placement like the front or something crazy like that.  Took a day to calculate the decreases for the raglan sleeves and then determined that it would take another 8 days to finish.  It's possible that I will make it.  I figure if I'm done by Saturday I could wear it on date night (even if it's the middle of spring and weather has been in the 70's - I don't care if I'm dying in it). I have noticed the heaviness of the cardi and hope that because it's a cardi that I will be cooler in it than if it was a full blown sweater.  I think also that the cotton and silk blending in it will help.  But I won't know until it's done.  Remind me not to knit a sweater from the bottom up.  Top down ones will allow me to try it on as I go.  Anyway...

Yes.  I surely did (and don't call me shirley).  I'm finally finished with the back of my cardi and I'm working on the sleeves.  I'm close to a third done and I hope to finish at least one today, or possibly tomorrow.  I noticed I had miscrossed a cable a couple cables down and almost had to rip the work I had done back to fix it.  Until I realized that I could just drop the stitches and then pick them back up in the right order.  Whew, that saved a lot of time.  It took about 45 minutes to fix it twice, since the first time I didn't drop enough stitches to get it corrected and had to do it again.  I'm so glad that I figured out how to do that neat little trick.  I think I had red somewhere that you can drop stitches and then fix them, and that's my inspiration to work the issue this way instead of frogging the whole darn thing. Take a look, can you see where I fixed the mistake? Didn't think so.

Still plugging along with the cardi I am making.  Made some good progress this weekend and then again yesterday.  Just started the decreases for the waist and I'm about 4 rows in.  44 more until I knit straight for the waist and then increase. two full aran cables - not bad progress the overall progress isn't too bad either (don't you just love the remote in this shot? can you tell what I do when I knit?)

I started the back portion to my cardi and it is coming a long.  One day this weekend yielded about 3 inches of length and I have begun the waist decrease rows.  The pattern is coming to me without hesitation and I am looking forward to starting the yoke (after the sleeves). More updates soon.

Very slow progress on my cardi, but still coming along.  I have now finished two fronts and just cast on 120 st for the back.  It's moving slowly, but progress is still progress.  I snapped a few photos, but they aren't the best.  Hopefully, I will get a few more that aren't so yellow - the sweater is actually ivory. one of the older photos from the front before it was ripped out, but you get the idea! there's that little section of knitted stitches that should have been purled