One of the worst things about working as a corporate litigator is that sometimes I have to put in 80+ hour weeks.  Thankfully it's rare in Delaware (I don't want to offer any opinion as to how often it happens in New York), but when a case heats up, the only thing to do is drop everything in your life except work and plug away until it's over.  So, I haven't done much in the way of knitting over the past few weeks, and I don't have an update for the Aran Dog Sweater tutorial. 

But in the middle of my hellish last two weeks, I was able to sneak out for my knitting group's celebration of World-Wide Knit in Public Day on Saturday, June 13.  Here are a few pictures: 

From left: Jan, Julie, and Sara. 


From left, Amy and Krista. 
Krista brought her son, Stephen, who has a ton of energy and behaved remarkably well.  I wonder what he's thinking here: 

We also managed to get a few action shots before the rain drove us out of the park:
   
These gloves are one of my very first finished objects -- I learned to knit when I was around 5, from my mother and my Aunt Sally, who gave me a lot of her old pattern books, including several Jack Frost mitten pattern books.  The problem was I had trouble following the laconic instructions for the Jack Frost mittens - I just wasn't experienced enough to fill in the pattern gaps with my own knowledge.  So instead of following those difficult-to-decipher patterns, I created my own.  For these gloves, I used Caron Simply Soft acrylic yarn and followed Fair Isle charts in a library book.  Not bad for a 13-ish year old, huh?


I made this hat from Katie Himmelberg's Snowball Hat pattern in Interweave Knits Fall 2007, using 2 strands of Cascade 220 held together.  I knit it mostly at a last-minute video CLE I attended in December because I had to get in 4 more Ethics credits before the end of 2008.  The mittens are from Marielle Henault's Bella's Mittens pattern, a tribute to the gorgeous mittens Kristen Stewart wears in the Twilight movie.  I knit these using 2 strands of Cascade 220 held together as well.  They came out a little tight, but after blocking they should be perfect.  Here's another photo: The pattern is very well-written, and the tapering is especially clever.  Great pattern, Marielle!

That's all I'm going to post for now.  I have a few more photos from WWKIP Day, and I hope to have the next Aran Dog Sweater update sometime this week, depending on whether I have another crazy work-week ahead of me.