Yes, it's just a swatch.

Not much knitting to actually show unfortunately, but I'm looking forward to this upcoming project. This swatch is for Medrith Glover's clever Circumnavigated Cardigan. If you have not heard of this, it's worth checking out. It is a completely seamless cardigan including worked in pockets. I do love interesting construction and this is an extremely versatile "pattern". It's more along the lines of Elizabeth Zimmerman's percentage method. It is more structured however, and therefore offers a little more help the EZ's more vague think-for-your-self style, so a nice middle ground. The cardigan is this year's group project for the Dallas Hand Knitter's Guild and should be interesting to see all the many variations. I'm planning to size mine down a little, adding some waist shaping, changing borders and adding a few horizontal stripes in black.

The yarn is KnitPicks good ol' Wool of the Andes and I love this color - Black Cherry. I'm really sold on their new heathered colors; they add such a depth to the color and have picked up a ball in Arctic Pool as well for a new sweater design.

In other news, have you seen the new holiday postage stamps? There's a little blurb on the bottom of the link. Seems even the USPS has caught on to the resurgence of knitting. I imagine there will be many a hand knit gift stamped with these.