Beer Fest and A Tangled Yoke We Don't Weave

Last weekend, Hubbleson and I traveled once again to Burlington for the MicroBrew Beerfest...I'm not even sure what the actual name of it is and I'm too lazy to google it for you. We had a slight snafu with our hotel not recognizing our reservation (they said we cancelled it days after we booked it which we did not and we could still see our reservation when we logged into our email account) but alas they found us something and gave us adjoining rooms (we met the In Laws there). Friday night we ate at A Single Pebble which was really great. I'm not a huge fan of Chinese food but this was really really good and it was a fun lively environment. Saturday was the actual Beerfest which was fun but we all agreed we would have liked it more if it was in fall...it's pretty bad when you're sweating from just drinking beer. Of course, after our fourth sample, I didn't really care about the heat anymore :)

I also got a chance to work on the Tangled Yoke Cardigan which is a mere shadow of it's former self. I'm pretty impressed with myself because I basically just loosely used this pattern as a guideline and ended up changing the majority of it. I totally customized it based on the gauge of my knitting which called for a lot of math and a lot of ratios and proportion figuring because between the size of needles I wanted to use and the weight of the yarn, even the smallest size would have been too big. I recalculated everything and rewrote the pattern, tweaked it so that it was more fitted, changed the collar and eliminated the tangled yoke cabling. I was not going to get the pattern right on that since I had totally different stitch counts than what the pattern was calling for because I changed so much so it had to go by the wayside. I'm currently picking up stitches to knit the button band..I'll post a pic when I'm finito.

Here are a few pics from the weekend, all fairly lackluster but it was so hot I didn't feel like tweaking the manual settings.