Doug has been working hard on a research grant proposal and this weekend is crunch time. He has been completely glued to his computer screen the whole weekend, occasionally lifting his head to mumble something about “multi-scale hierarchical dependencies” or “brain-state dynamics and connectivity plasticity.”

I had hoped to be showing you my new sweater today, because I finished knitting it a week ago. I managed to put off grafting together the underarm stitches for a full week, because I am terrible at grafting and I had to psych myself to do it. (The knitting itself is the fun part.) Yesterday in the bright early morning sun, I sat at the table and grafted the underarms. Of course, it took only half an hour, which is vastly disproportionate to the time I spent procrastinating about it. At that point, the sweater looked like this (from the reverse side, of course):

As it was a beautiful, sunny day, I took it out into the garden to weave in all the ends:

Then, I gave it a bath:

Finally I blotted out all of the water with a few iterations of towels, and laid it out to dry:

I didn’t even bother pinning it because I think it fits just right. It is dry now, and beautiful, but I have to wait until Doug is finished with “cellular and circuit mechanisms in a causal developmental model” before showing it to you.