Meanwhile, the local weatherman is using these terms to describe Los Angeles weather:

My roommate mentioned that our forecast sounds like a nice gouda.

My brother is aware of the hat, and he’s seen grainy, iChat-relayed images of it half-done. But because this is technically a secret project, I will not post pictures until he has the hat on his head, hopefully sometime next week.

Meanwhile, I have finished a project for myself. Yes! It’s true! Something I will keep and have actually worn in public since its completion. Observe, in all its glory, the Leavened Raglan:

From Interweave Knits Magazine, Fall 2007, designed by Carrie Bostick Hoge.

Some detail:

It’s comfy and warm. I used Lambs Pride Bulky and it took just under 5 skeins for the medium size. The Lamb’s pride sheds a little more than I’d prefer, but in the end this is a good catchall sweater. I’ve worn it to the movies twice already. It also only took about a week to make, and it positively flew off the needles. I think it only took about eight episodes of Veronica Mars to complete.

Perhaps I should start a system where I measure the time it takes to knit something in number of TV episodes or movies. I know it took me the whole first season of Heroes to knit a project for my forthcoming book.

I’ll have to think about that one…