aaaarrgh!

I just had the most frustrating sweater discussion with Corey. I'm ready to swatch and get going on sweater attempt #2 with the new yarn and I showed him on-line photos of 6 or 7 sweaters. What I want is an "I like that...do that one!" response. What I got is, "That's nice." "That one's nice, too." "So's that one."

:banghead:

He did rule out two that he didn't like that I didn't think he would like because they were a little "young" for him. But he had a hard time picking between two Knitty sweaters that aren't even close. Cheesypuffs and Leo. I think we finally decided on Lucky. He kept wanting ME to pick, but what is most important is whether or not he will WEAR this, so I didn't want to decide on my own. Lucky has a pattern that will hopefully be interesting enough not to put me to sleep, but yet easy enough that I can do it while watching TV or picking it up and putting it down in airports.

I really like the Ultimate Gift Pullover (warning, it's a .pdf file), but the yarn I have is worsted weight and in any case, at 7 stitches per inch, that would probably take me FOREVER to do.

In other news, my friend Heidi from Canada stayed the night Friday night. She managed to time her arrival perfectly, after the tornado and baseball sized hail had moved thorugh the area, so we went to dinner and Billy Bob's, even if we were later than originally scheduled. She was in her element at Billy Bob's, being a huge C&W fan. Marty gave her the grand tour and Corey and I tagged along while they discussed artists. Then we all hung out in Marty's office for a while until Corey was falling asleep from getting up so early for work.

Heidi sporting marty's hat.....