So Much Progress, So Few Posts (Oops!)

One finished Embossed Leaves sock:
I'm very pleased with this pattern. It's fun and it's going quickly. I also think I picked a great yarn.

Progress has also ocurred on the Diamond-Seed Baby Jacket, as have technical difficulties.
See how the sleeves seem a lot wider than the armscyes? Yeah. I have reasons (who shall remain nameless) to believe they aren't going to fit all that well. I was very happy with this pattern until assembly started. I am however, still very happy with the yarn, Dale of Norway Baby Ull. It's soft and has a slight sheen. Now that the sweater is blocked it has a lovely drape. The yarn is made for babies, but the palette is not all pastel, so I'll consider it for future work for myself.

I've also been making stitch markers:
These are made with split rings,

and these are made with jump rings I clumsily soldered shut then filed smooth. Functional, but not good enough to share with others.

Can you believe neither Hobby Lobby nor Michael's had appropriately-sized split rings? I didn't want to drive all over the metro looking for a bead shop*, so I just ordered some from Fire Mountain (along with more beads, hee!) But still...

*At B&N Wednesday night Liesl filled me in on some local spots to check out, so in the future I'm better armed. Yellow Pages, why do you fail me?

And the big project I've been working on has no pictures. I keep a spreadsheet of potential projects and some pictures of them on my PDA. Lately they've been neglected, and I wanted to improve the quality of the pictures (something happened when they were uploaded; I had to figure it out and fix it.) This has taken a lot of time, but I'm nearly done. I need to move the computer from the dining room table back to my desk to use the scanner to get some photos I don't have and that is just too much work. It's all about getting organized and immersing myself in my hobby again. As much as I love it and it's omni-present in my life, it does take a little bit of watering and pruning which I have neglected as of late.

Now for the fun part --
I've decided that I am going to alternate making a baby sweater with a sweater for myself. So now that I'm nearly done with the above baby sweater I need to pick a sweater for myself. I can't decide between these two:

This is from Vogue Knitting, and I bought the yarn from Elann summer of 2004. It has tenure.


And this is some Old School Cotton-Ease in pink for this sweater.
I bought this yarn summer of 2005.

Both will make nice summer sweaters for work. Both are made from cotton, so hand stress will be even. The Scoop du Jour has more mindless bits and I enjoyed the last pattern I used from Bonne Marie. I just can't decide. What do you think?