I've been working on a variety of things this weekend. Mostly, I've made progress on the sleeves of the Zelda pullover. It's easy enough - although it requires attention to row number, because of the lace pattern and the increases - that I was able to read and knit.

I read a whole book, whoo! One of the grad students and I were talking the other day and she asked me about similarity indexes. There's only one I really use a lot (and it turns out it's one of the better ones, luckily) but I knew I had a book that had some stuff on them - Anne Magurran's "Ecological Diversity and its Measurements." Which I had bought but never actually read, beyond dipping in here and there when I looked something up in the index. So I decided I had better read it before I loaned it to her (one of my quirks). So I read it, and did about 30 rows on the sleeves.

I always knit both sweater sleeves at once if they are identical. Two reasons on this: first, if I decide I need to do any tweaks (like make them shorter), it's a lot easier to do it identically twice at the same time. And second, it seems a lot less boring. I'd probably not get that second sleeve done if I had to do them one at a time. (I use a long circular needle; I mostly use circular needles for sweaters).

I also knit some on the simplest socks I've got going, from KnitPicks "Dancing" in a pastel combination. They're just simple 2x2 ribbed socks but the fabric is very pleasing - it's nice and stretchy and should feel really good on my feet.

I also sewed a bit more on the Shabby Chic (as I've decided to call it now) quilt. The bad thing is, my sewing room is the last on the "line" for the air-conditioning (and it was, apparently, a retrofit: the room was a screened porch that the person who owned the house before me had converted) so it gets really stuffy in the summer. And I'm sort of unwilling to move my sewing machine, cutting table, etc. So I work in there for short periods and leave when I start to feel overwhelmed.

I also put in a few more stitches on the handquilted quilt. I should force myself to do that - even just a few stitches a day will get it done faster than NO stitches a day.