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Comma the Cat wanted to help me take some photos of yarn. He thought I should share his loveliness with the world. Unfortunately he doesn't understand how hard it is to photograph black cats. This was right before he knocked the yarn off the table in disgust.

Here's my new grass green yarn from Knit Picks. I'm using it to make a Larch Cardigan.

Here's a photo of it in front of the basil.

Here's my work in progress. It seems to be knitting up really well, although because the pattern calls for sport weight and I'm using fingering weight, I had to go up a couple of needle sizes, and the fabric is more open than I expected. Not that it matters a whole lot. I live in the desert. I struggled at first with the detailing along the ribbing.

Instead of a traditional 1x1 ribbing, this is knit and purled through the back loop, bound off, and then picked up again to create the pretty little ledge before the body of the sweater. I was fussing about this at first, because it's fiddly, but after casting on and tearing out a few times, I decided I really liked it. :)

Also, here's another finished object. This is shawl #7 of 2012.