Under construction

One of the things I was surprised to find out here after moving from Japan was the knitting pattern.
They are quite different.
While Japanese knitting patterns are graphical charts, the American version is written instructions.
With Japanese charts, I just look at them and know what to do. American patterns, I had to read the entire instruction, row by row, to find out the difficulty.
This was intimidating and daunting at first, but as I got the hang of it,
I found the American version very easy to use and, the best part is, easy to adjust the size.

So now I happily knit with America patterns. Current project is Armande cardigan from KNITTY Winter 2013.
I’m almost done with the body, and realized that I would probably run out of yarn.
So I  stopped knitting and started to spin...should have planned more carefully.

I don’t mind knitting in summer since summer in bay area is cool 

(this is another thing which surprised me), but I intend to finish knitting before summer.