Thanks to there having been a SpongeBob marathon last night (there's nothing like avoiding the local news when all the stories make you sad), I managed to finish the left side of the Cache-Coeur and graft the shoulder seams together:



This is one of those patterns where you sort of have to trust the pattern. When I was doing the shoulder decreases, I was all "wait - these are going in the wrong direction! This is going to be totally misshapen!" But now I see how it works - the shoulders slope slightly downwards because the thing has almost like cap sleeves.

What remains is picking up alllllll the stitches necessary for the side bands and then allllllllllllllllllllllllll the stitches necessary for the front, neck, and bottom bands (and removing the provisional cast on from the bottom).

(I think I tried to make the number of "l's" proportional there)

And I'm worrying a bit about it - no, nothing mundane like "will I have enough yarn?" I'm wondering if the style is perhaps a bit "young" - one of my probably-irrational fears is having people say behind my back "mutton dressed up as lamb" (maybe no one says that any more). Some days - usually this time of year - I find myself wondering if I should only dress in dark colors any more, and eschew anything with ruffles or pintucks. Then again, I don't know - I've seen women close to my age (coughGwenStefanicough) dressing like Bad Fantasy Anime Schoolgirls, and I've seen women in their 60s in miniskirts.

One of the things that frustrates me about being grown up? I didn't think I was going to have to make it up as I went along. I thought there'd be, like, a rule book or something that you got on your 18th birthday.