La’s having a contest – post pictures of the cute little feet in your life (furbaby or otherwise) over the next week and you could win some La-made stitchmarkers. (Here’s my entry, La!)
Reading Update
Delete All Suspects by Donna Andrews. This mystery series feature artificial intelligence Turing Hopper, who helps a human private investigator solve crimes. I guess this would be classified as a “techno-cozy” mystery – really, mystery niches are amazing, aren’t they?!
Murder with Puffins and Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon by Donna Andrews. These were the first Meg Langslow mysteries I’d read and I enjoyed them much more than I expected – they’re very silly and feel a bit like reading a comedic melodrama. Definitely a nice break from 24! Anyway, Meg works as a blacksmith, making ornamental items – what was I just saying about mystery niches?!? And yes, the titles are all bird-themed, although none of the characters is an ornithologist.
Refined Raglan Photos
Ok, bowing to peer pressure, here you go – me modeling the refined raglan. Don’t I look thrilled? If you’ve been reading for ages and ages, you might notice that this sweater looks awfully similar to something… (You will need to click on the picture to see the cable detail.)
In an attempt to make pictures of a black sweater more interesting, here’s Mayhem! (My baby is all grown up! *sniff*)
“Did you see it?! I was just sitting there in the previous photo, minding my own business when I was rudely snatched up!” -M
And Chaos!
“Why is that thing clicking and beeping and flashing at us?! Obviously we’re running out of time and we’re all going to die!!” -C
So Chaos has become a Jack Bauer fan too?
Great sweater!
I love the sweater! You don’t look particularly dorky, much better than *my* self-portraits ever turn out.
The sweater is great. And the kitties are clearly thrilled to be included in the pictures.
Wow, the sweater looks great! Yay you!
It’s so funny how May’s pushing away with her paws – “ew…Mom…stop it…”. Ah, the teenage years.
I think May looks like she’s smiling and Chaos looks like he’s a little bewildered>>>but cute,cute and the sweater is great!
Oh dear, the photos clearly show that Chaos needed more support and you needed more strength to carry him 😉
Obviously, that style suits you! Gorgeous!
The sweater is really, really nice…and you have fabulous hair.
Great sweater! I had to deal with the same peer pressure when the folks who read my blog kept asking me to stop cropping my head off of all of my finished object pictures.
I’m sure that after all of those bib photos that Chaos thought you were going to make him wear that sweater..
Chaos looks terrified in that picture!
Love the sweater; that’s another one (of about 16 gazillion) that I have been wanting to make. Maybe some day 🙂
I’m going to have a heck of a time getting all the photos for La’s contest, but I’m starting work on it tonight – it may take me the whole week!
The sweater looks great! And Chaos must have been de-evil-ised since the hourglass sweater photo, no evil glow this time!
Very nice sweater! Just last night I was looking at the pattern and thinking that Id love to knit it too. Then I was like: It is pretty much like what you are knitting right now… Just with fancier raglans. If I survive through the Hourglass, the refined raglan will make it on my to do list!
That sweater is perfect. I love the one of May looking so tiny in the corner then suddenly HUGE in your arms. And Chaos, well, if I were to ever cheat on the Boo Man, it would have to be snorgling some Chaos.
May is looking big now! It is interesting to see her compared to Chaos in those pictures — it really emphasizes how different their faces are especially!
What a great sweater – I bet you get a LOT of wear out of it.
You are a very photogenic family!
It’s beautiful, Chris!! Definitely looks like a keeper.
Ahh that’s not dorky. If I could knit a fine sweater like that, I’d take pictures of me in action poses though. Like laying on my stomach, with my toes pointed in the air…”I call this one the serpent”
Now, that’s dorky
Yay for family photos! And the sweater is wonderful.
Your hair looks great. So shiny and healthy. Just like Chaos and May’s ;o)
You are all sorts of adorable in that sweater! I love it!
And of course I love how C&M tricked you into placing them in your photos! May is getting SO big and Chaos is cute (as usual!)
It looks wonderful! Great job of refining the refined raglan.
Very nice – although you do look sort of annoyed in the first picture. Of course, holding Chaos you look very happy!
AMy stole my line “BOMB!!!” You look great – and the sweater looks – well, black – and quite lovely. As always, C & M are their usual darling selves.
Fantastic raglan. Someday someday I will get over my sweater aversion(due to a 15 year old UFO) and knit them again. Your raglan looks like a winner!
I think it looks great! You’ll of course have to tell me about the gauge and all, since I’ve the same yarn….
Poor abused catchenage. *giggle*
Hey Chris- Looks great on you. I love the way raglan sleeves fit. Very flattering.
Not as flattering as black fur, but then, PETA would be after you.
Chris is looks fantastic! And of course everyone is enhanced with a black cat.
May definitely looks like an adult kitty now, but Chaos looks like an adult Panther, he’s such a big kitty.
Sweater looks great. Must be comforting to know that you have Mayhem around to protect you from the evil knitting paparazzi.
Chaos has obviously been watching too much 24 if clicking, beeping and flashing makes him think you are all going to die.
You are beautiful. I mean, I knew you were pretty but I haven’t seen many pics of you and I think you’re just lovely!
the sweater is beautiful, and you and the cats look adorable too. 🙂
It’s a good thing I don’t live there or I’d be swiping that sweater. LOL You look great, not dorky at all.
The sweater looks great! Congratulations!
I don’t believe for a minute that May felt “rudely snatched up!” I think she was angling to get in the pictures from the get-go. Now, Chaos, he looks like he would like to be just about anywhere else, espeicially somewhere with tuna. 😉
OMG, you even got the schnozzle in those kitty pics! WAAAAY cute.
If it weren’t for the color of the eyes, I’d say you were holding the same cat. Man, May grew into a beauty!
Your sweater came out beautifully. Do the cats love that you match them now?
It look wonderful on you, Chris! And you had some great photo styling props 😉
These niche mysteries are nuts!
The sweater is fantastic! Love the kitty pics too. May looks relaxed.
The sweater looks wonderful on you. If you like black, you like black, nothing wrong with it. I really liked that sweater, but hated the funnel neck. Mainly because anything high up on my neck looks retarded. I like your change to the sweater and now I may actually make it. I love the niche mysteries esp. the bird-themed one. They are very silly, but fun to read.
Your sweater looks fabulous! The black cat hair really brings out the sheen of the yarn!!!!!
Chaos & May are adorable as usual. 🙂
Love the sweater, your self portraits are much better than mine. I’m so scary in mine I even frighten myself.
nobody thinks you look dorky, esp b/c the cats are so cute!!
Great pictures, great big kitties, and great picture of those toesies………perhaps Bella will let me take some photos oh her little paws……..
How different both cats look. I think it is amazing how different they all are! I see no problem with knitting what you know you like.
That is a lovely sweater! And your counterparts set it off beautifully!
LOL! I’m still laughing at the last caption. I’m sure that’s what they really think. Very nice sweater. You don’t look dorky at all, but I know what you mean about the self-portrait thing.
You and the sweater both look fabulous. I think it’s very nice that you knit a sweater to match your cats, too.
You need to move your cute butt closer so I can see that sweater in person. Ya know, over coffee? Aw screw the sweater. I’ll just settle for your company and some coffee. 🙂
You are brave to pick up a cat while wearing a handknit. All I can think of is one stray claw catching the fabric…eeeek!
yay! Awesome pics!
Miss May has a chubby little face…. ok maybe its not chubby but furrier than Chaos’s. It was neat to see the different of them by holding them.
Great knit by the way.
what lovely photos – great to put a face to the name as well 🙂
what lovely family portraits! and a great looking sweater.
i’m with you on feeling like a dork when taking self-portraits.