There's nothing worse than a boy who whizzes past you and asks, over his shoulder, "Has anyone told you how beautiful you look today?" And when you say, "No..." he says, "Oh..."
There's nothing worse when he happens to be the boy you like and he's wearing nifty skates with shiny yellow wheels and looping around you right before Couple's Skate and you're certain he's going to ask you to join him when the time comes.
There's nothing worse when he goes and gets an ice cream one-half second before Couple's Skate is announced and hangs with his friends, instead. And when you settle for a skate with a lesser-flame, he sends you a wink from across the rink, a wink that unsettles your soul.
It's a good thing I didn't marry a boy like that.
Well this is my completed Green Gable. I love, love, love it. I surprised myself with the Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece. Even though the way the skein is wound sort of irritated me, the yarn itself is surprisingly resilient and the color is nice. The fit of the top is great and the only change I made--which was a minor one--was to add about an inch in length. I noticed, when I was steaming the living heck out of it with my steamer thing--that it grew a little bit more, so who knows how much was added between my fiddling and the steaming.
Thanks for all the comments about my Flash Your Stash photo. Although it was my idea, HWWV did it all. He even arranged the yarn, lugged a huge ladder up and down the stairs, and managed not to unravel anything or step on the Koigu or mush the Lorna's too much.
HWWV, he's such a pro, he didn't even drool.
HWWV is a pro, but so is his wife.
Seriously, it must be the marketing background and the creativity that goes with it. I always look at my photos and think how boring. Every time I take one, I try to add a little zest a la Knit and Tonic.
That is a sweater I might just try. It is really pretty.
Dang girl, you really knit like the wind.
Posted by: Lynae | April 04, 2006 at 06:22 PM
Did you make that beautiful sweater this morning on the treadmill? HWWV didn't drool? I guess that's okay since everybody else did!
Posted by: Stephanie | April 04, 2006 at 06:25 PM
What a beautiful sweater!
Posted by: Kris | April 04, 2006 at 06:29 PM
Green Gable looks great! I'm anxiously awaiting my Cotton Fleece so I can start mine...in the meantime I'm trying to start a Green Gable KAL, for anyone who's interested.
Posted by: Kelly | April 04, 2006 at 07:03 PM
LOVE the Green Gable. LOVE the leprechaun-green Fad Classic. LOVE the flash your stash photo (just didn't comment earlier because I thought 150 comments was probably already overwhelming for you). Honestly, your blog was the one that got me into knitting blogs to begin with - always inspiring and highly entertaining!
Posted by: HB | April 04, 2006 at 07:06 PM
There's no way Chappy would have been sitting that still while somebody ran by for a photo . . . and that is another great photo. As always. Green Gables looks wonderful.
Posted by: --Deb | April 04, 2006 at 07:11 PM
Was it Mark J? Because he did that to me in 5th grade and I'm still not over it.
Posted by: Kate | April 04, 2006 at 07:12 PM
Green Gable is an awesome sweater - great job!
Posted by: Angelia | April 04, 2006 at 07:22 PM
Looks great! I love your new haircut too.
I'm still halfway on my GG. I had to chuckle a bit about how you mentioned the way the yarn was wound. I had a little hissy-fit this morning after a huge tangled mess. I never got to do any knitting, just unknotting. Ugh.
I hope mine turns out as nice as yours.
Posted by: heather | April 04, 2006 at 08:03 PM
I think we need to have an HWWV appreciation moment. Let us bow our heads and give thanks:
Thank you, HWWV for being such a great photographer - and a great sport;
Thank you, HWWV for keeping our fair Wendy happy and for fathering the redoubtable Girlfriend;
Thank you, HWWV for being such a chic, fun, and all-around cool dude-about-town;
Thank you, HWWV for helping us readers to believe that sometimes fabulous women do get lucky enough to find equally fabulous mates;
And furthermore, thank you to the powers that be for helping these two find each other;
So say we all (or at least me).
Posted by: Lizbon | April 04, 2006 at 08:03 PM
I don't know where to start my dear... the shirt, the smile, the scarf, the hair - you are rockin' it all! Honestly. It came out
p e r f e c t!
the boys will surely be taking their time when passing you by...
Posted by: sarah | April 04, 2006 at 08:10 PM
LOVE the brown yarn!! You look fabulous and Green Gable paired with the skirt is too cute for words. I'm so glad you liked the pattern!
Posted by: Rachel | April 04, 2006 at 08:17 PM
Awwww, I love your picture today too! It's so adorable with you all demure and 50's classic, contrasted with sprinting HWWV. As always, it is so infuriating that we don't get to see his face!
The Green Gable Top looks so good on you, and I love it.
Posted by: Sherry | April 04, 2006 at 08:21 PM
Damn but you and your Main Squeeze are clever!...true partners in crime. Pretty pretty top -- I've just started a T-shirt with cotton fleece: now I think I want to make a Green Gable instead!
Posted by: Erin | April 04, 2006 at 08:25 PM
you're so cute! everything looks good on you (even yarn in a tub)!
Posted by: jennifer | April 04, 2006 at 08:30 PM
This is so summer chic and HWWW is such a good sport. Not many like him where I come from :)
Posted by: erin | April 04, 2006 at 10:34 PM
Erin, didn't you know that he is from where you come from?
Posted by: Wendy | April 04, 2006 at 10:47 PM
OMG...I love the memory...I love the sweater...I love the streak of HWWV...but I really love Chuck! And how did you find sun when it is pouring rain in the SFV...I am moving to your neck of the woods.
Posted by: Darci | April 04, 2006 at 10:53 PM
Darci...notice the umbrella I'm standing under?
Posted by: Wendy | April 04, 2006 at 10:54 PM
Are you sure he didn't drool? I dunno, we all did, but for different reasons--the yarn you know. Your pictures are always upbeat and fresh. Love the streak of HWWV. I like the combo of the sweater and the skirt
Posted by: Isela | April 05, 2006 at 12:42 AM
Superfantastique! I love the first photo. You guys seem to have a lot of fun. :)
Posted by: Mandy | April 05, 2006 at 01:00 AM
Oh, dear me. All these people making such great-looking Green Gable tops. Makes me want one myself, so badly. Yours is fantastic, of course, and I have to compliment the new haircut, too. It's retro and fresh at the same time!
Posted by: Mary | April 05, 2006 at 01:38 AM
I was curious about that tub photo. Very chic. But what you and HWWW do with ladders and cameras and bathtubs isn't necessarily blog fodder. Unless you want it to be. :-)
Great sweater.
Posted by: jessie | April 05, 2006 at 03:03 AM
LOVE IT. I just got this pattern and am itchin' to make it. Yours looks great, and I love the color you chose. (I notice you avoided green after the Fad Classic...)
Posted by: Elizabeth | April 05, 2006 at 05:01 AM
Oh finally a photo with HWWV in it! Course showing his superhuman powers by zipping by.
Ah, a clue!!!!!! HWWV is from Singapore.
Love Chuck just calmly checking HWWV out as he zips by
Posted by: Debbie | April 05, 2006 at 05:15 AM