Happy Valentine's Day!! Bran helped me to make these cards for his preschool class. I got the idea from here. Baking the first batch was a little exciting because it dripped more than I expected, and the tray I had placed underneath was not sufficient to catch all the drippings. Long story short, I needed to clean the oven that night.

Bran gave them to his class yesterday, and it turned out that they were the only handmade cards of the group. I don't regret making them, since he enjoyed it, and it gave us a fun activity to do together.

In knitting news, I managed to finish the left front of Arwen. I left the shoulder sts on a holder instead of binding off so that I could use 3-needle bind off when the back is done. I also cast the stitches for the sleeve and the hood directly onto the front using knitted cast-on, instead of doing backward loop cast-on on the empty needle. Hopefully it will all work out in the end.

My knitting must be getting looser as I get older. After trying a gauge with 8's and getting 16 sts/26 rows, I tried it with 7's and was able to get close enough for jazz - 18 sts/23 rows. The pattern calls for 18/26, but I figured that width is more important since I can easily adjust length by doing fewer or more rows.

I decided to save the stockinette back for easy Knitting Night knitting, and went ahead with the left front. Stockinette isn't my favorite, but having the 24 stitch reversible cable pattern at the beginning or end of each row has kept it interesting so far.