This is the yarn and the pattern I plan to make for my husband.  Sorry about the glare I was having trouble with the lighting.

I'm sorry I didn't write yesterday, I just had so many errands that I forgot.  I do have a bunch of other things to say so I'll have to figure out where to start.

NerdWars is starting to recruit aging for the next tournament.    There are some new teams like a Steam Punk one and a lot of returning teams.  I signed up for Shady Cels again.  They haven't assigned teams yet but I don't see why they would assign me somewhere else.  My second choice is team Epic which covers RPG things,and one of the things that includes is WOW.  There are so many teams that sound fun but those are my top two.  My husband raids with the Ravelry WOW guild so I was trying to convince him to learn to knit or crochet so he could join team Epic.  There is also someone on Facebook that I am trying to convince to join.  If she did she would probably be on 221B (the Sherlock team).  My best friend from college has a sister that also plays NerdWars.  She is on the Space Alliance team.  It covers most space teams (Babolyn 5 and Firefly have their own teams).  Because of NerdWars I was trying to decide if I should make the sweater for my dissertation or start on my own.

As for the sweater besides starting it on my own I have had a sad experience with the swatch.  I told you I had to go down two needle sizes to get gauge.  My gauge was beautiful until I washed the swatch.  Because it is acrylic I just threw it in the washer and dryer as I normally would.  It grew width wise and shrank length wise.  I am not amused.  I'm going to have to hand wash it and I was really hoping I didn't have to since it's acrylic.  It's that the whole benefit to acrylic? Oh well.

I have been working hard on the ice cream pillows and I ran out of white with half a scoop left.  I'll try and pick some more up today.  I thought I had some but I can see the difference even though my daughter says it's the same color.  It could be that it was the same color but it's old now.  I need other yarn becasuse putting that color in will make me hate the project.

I did receive my bags, I'll try to remember to take a picture.  I was thinking the other day about my projects.  I lock my projects in the car if I can't take them with me and if anyone decided to steal them they would be disappointed but it's actually somewhat expensive.  The bag is $22 the yarn is $26 and the needles and $6ish.  That's over $50 that is only valuable to me. It's interesting what different people value.

I think that's it for today.  I'm tired and I got a new book I'm going to go snuggle under some blankets and read.