Although lack of a computer makes me spend more time knitting (which might be good for you in blog-land), it’s making me crazy. 

I stitched up one shoulder of my sweater today and then put the neckline on the knitting machine to knit the roll collar.  I only had to pick up the stitches twice.  The first time I put the weight comb on too close to the stitches and knit the comb right into the sweater.  That was a Bad Thing.  So, I had to break the yarn, extract the sweater from the machine and then pick out the row of stitches (and the comb).  I then picked up the stitches again and knit a row before putting the comb back on.  Honestly, I know I could have picked up the stitches and knit the five rows on needles faster than I did on the machine.

Now, all I need to do is sew up the other shoulder, ease the sleeves on to sew them up, and sew up the sides.  I’m going to get professional help tomorrow to get that done.  Then, in less than a week I’ll have a sweater for T3.

Back to my computer decision.  After begging time from my DH and trying to make our old G3 (running Mac OS 8.6) work for me, I’ve decided I can’t live without a machine of my own.  I’m cruising by the Apple Store, looking for refurbs.  When the right one comes up I’m ordering it.  I think I’m going for a 15" MacBook Pro with a GB of RAM.  We’ll see what comes up this week.  There was one I wanted available this morning, but when I went back this afternoon it was gone.  I won’t be so slow next time.

Look forward to a picture of my completed sweater tomorrow!

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