Well, I figured I'd better show you his new sweater before the natives got too restless.You may remember last fall when I spun and spun to make all this yarn for our friend Denise to knit The Shepherd a new sweater vest. She brought it to our guild meeting on Saturday, so he was able to wear it to church on Valentine's Day!
One of the ladies from church is also a spinner and knitter - she gave it her full approval!
Denise used a pattern that The Shepherd picked out from looking at MANY, MANY mens vest patterns that we found on the internet.
She also used the vest that he has worn for the past 20 years or so that his "ex" made for him. He asked me one time if it didn't bother me that he wore it - "heck no"- it is a beautiful vest made from a gorgeous brown Navajo Churro (I think) wool - (really it is a work of art with cables and everything) - but he has practically worn the poor thing out. So it was time for a new one.
Thank you Denise for your wonderful skill and care that you took - I think he's already planning which fleece he'd like made into the next vest.
Olympic Update: The Chinese won both the gold and silver in "Pairs figure skating" tonight - both couples were just fantastic - how the heck do they do that? - & Congrats to the Canadians for their GOLD medal won by Alexandre Bilodeau in the men's moguls - (he'll need that gold medal to pay for the knee reconstruction surgery they'll have to do when he's 30...)
