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Just finished the back of the blue cardie that I am designing. I think it turned out pretty well. It's just a simple raglan cardigan with a seed stitch border at the bottom and a little bit of side shaping.

In other news, I think I'm going to have to rip out Laurel Hill. After losing 50lbs, I think it's just going to be too large. Better to cut my losses than to finish it and never wear it. Speaking of my WIP's, I really need to update that page. I'm happy with my gallery, but not my wip page.

Finished one skein. I really need to think about getting a spinning wheel!

On a bloggy note. . . Pete found a nifty little graphical browser thingy from Google. It basically shows all the links from one page to another in a graph form. Kind of fun to play around with!

I have been on a reading kick (so not too much knitting is getting done.) I finished 2 books in the last week and both were very good. First was Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. It is basically about a murder trial, but there is a lot of exploration of the Japanese-American issues before, during and right after WW2.

The next was Life of Pi by Yann Martel. I have to say that I could NOT put this book down. It's over 300 pages and I think I read it in two days. This book is about survival -- I don't know what else to say besides that.

Now I'm starting The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold (generously sent to my by Kerstin) and I'm really enjoying it so far. What luck! I haven't found a book that I was really interested in for months and now three great ones in a row! What's your favorite book? I'm looking to put together my summer reading list!

Last week was cool in the greater Chicagoland area so I did a lot of dyeing. Hopefully I will have some skiens of this made up later in the week.

And a big thank you to Kerstin for sending me "The Lovely Bones" which I have been wanting to read for months. Stop by her blog to check out all the Tank-y goodness. She just started "Smooch" -- very nice! (Must finish Maude, must finish Maude. . .)

I'm also designing my first sweater -- yikes! I'll post pics when I'm farther along.