A couple of in-progress shots.

First, the sleeves (they are up to the third of 10 increases) of the Central Park hoodie:



As I said, when sleeves are identical, I like to knit both at once. They seem to go faster.

I also got a tip from my mom - maybe everyone already does this but I'd never heard of it - to help more evenly pick up stitches. She's working on a vest with a very precise number of stitches required to be picked up for the armband, and she figured it out by weaving a glass-headed pin through every stitch she figured she'd need to pick up in. That allowed her to make sure the spacing was ideal, and as she picked up stitches, she removed pins, and so she didn't even have to count.

(Me? I'd have to count. I'd be dropping pins all over the place. But I'm still going to try it as I have a few sweaters that are marred a bit at the neckline by less-than-perfect pick ups.)

I also started a pair of Feather and Fan socks using the ball of blue and green self-striping Meilenweit I got for Christmas:



Just as there is a list of "reversible stitch patterns good for scarves" out there, there should be a list of "lace or other patterns that work well with self-striping or other self-patterning yarns." Some do, some don't. I don't know that cables would work well. The lace patterns that "bias" back and forth (like this one, like Razor Shell, like the pattern used in the Broadripple Socks) work nicely and they can be kind of surprising with the self-striping yarns.