Knitting Needle Review

The first thing I have to say here is a disclaimer. This is not a review of all possible knitting needles, just a review of the needles I've been lucky enough to try out or have heard a lot about.

I should also say that I am a very biased reporter of the facts.

I really love the sharp, long points, and hate the short, stubby, blunt points. I've also tried plastic and wooden needles, and I find that I tend to snap them with amazing regularity, and since I can't afford to replace needles (either in knitting time lost while I get new ones or in money spent), I tend to avoid those. I also like circular needles because they're more versatile. I can knit flat if I want, or knit circularly in the easiest way possible. So, mostly, you're going to hear about needles that I like.

 Fixed Needles

The one exception to the plastic knitting needle situation is the Bryspun circulars. They have a metal rod in the tip, and the plastic is slightly flexible, but still stiff, so they don't tend to break like their DP needles do. I like to use their DP needles in the larger sizes because they have some give (they're not too stiff) which is easier on my hands; the surface lets what you're knitting slide smoothly, but tends to prevent the stitches from jumping off; and they're just nice to work with. I only work with them when I have plenty of the same size on hand because I manage to snap them on a regular basis.

The points on the Bryspun needles are very similar to the Addi lace needles, but a little more concave, which makes them a dream to knit with.

Everyone who likes sharp points seems to love the Signature needles with stiletto points the best. Here's a photo of a stiletto point.

And, for comparison, here's a photo of the three different needle points they have available. That's the stiletto on the left, middy in the middle and the blunt point on the right. They mention on their website that the stiletto are the most popular.

I haven't had the privilege of trying them yet (in other words, I can't afford them), but have heard that the cables on the circular needles are wonderful.

I watched an episode of Knitting Daily where they were making gauge swatches on short single point Signatures, and it looked like they were knitting with jewelry, and I'm just dying to get a pair. The available stoppers on the ends look like this:

You can see why I said they look like you're knitting with jewelry.

The down side of these is the price. Everyone says that they're worth every penny, but nobody denies that they're expensive.

At about half the price of the Signatures, I love the Addi lace needles. They originally advertised that they had copied the Baleen needle points, but those were a concave shape, and the Addi lace points that I've gotten lately seem to be straight.

Below is a comparative photo of an Addi lace point, and the point on a Chiaogoo lace needle of the same size. Addi is shown on the bottom with Chiaogoo on the top.

Addi lace needles are made in brass with a clear coating that I think is resin. If you remember the grey coating that used to be on some needles that everybody insisted was Teflon, that was actually resin. The clear resin coating on the Addis doesn't seem to be quite as slippery as the old grey coating was. If you're knitting lace, this can be an advantage. The slipperiness is close to a nickel coating, but not quite as slippery.

At this point, I'm reviewing the fixed Addi lace needles. I'll get to the interchangeables in a bit.

I've noticed that after you have them for a while, they tend to smell like brass that's oxidizing, and I tend to get the smell on my hands and I don't like it. The points, however are quite nice. From the photos, they seem to be very similar to the stiletto points on Signatures, and at about half the price. The joins are wonderful, and the cables are very flexible. I used to love these needles before I tried Chiaogoo.

A Chiaogoo lace point is shown above the Addi point in the photo above. The points are very similar, and seem to be almost (maybe exactly) the same as the stilettos. When knitting with them, the very end of the point seems to be a little more blunt in the Addis.

Chiaogoo lace needles come with stainless steel tips, which will never smell like the Addis do. They also have the size of the needle imprinted on the needle tip, although I find the imprint difficult to read. The steel has just the tiniest bit less slipperiness than nickel coated needles, but not much. They're very close. The joins on these are smooth as silk, and the cables are sturdy (braided steel with a plastic cover), and very flexible, with no memory.

They also have a different feel when you knit with them. They feel like precision tools in a way that makes the Addis seem almost clumsy by comparison. This is not something that I can describe any other way. They just feel very precise, and just perfect to knit with. All this at about half the price of the Addis (or about 1/4 of the price of Signatures).

If you have an allergy to nickel, all of the needles reviewed so far should be safe for you.

Interchangeable Needles

Now we get to the ones that will not be safe for people with a nickel allergy, and the ones that are interchangeable, too. There are also ones in this list that are safe for people with allergies.

Options needles by Knit Picks are brass with a nickel coating. The very tip of the point is sharp, but they have a shorter taper than all the needles reviewed so far. Options are also available in resin-impregnated wood (Harmony) and plastic (Zephyrs) with the same tips for those of you with allergies. As far as wood or plastic needles go, they probably have the sharpest points it's possible to have with those. The cables are very flexible, and the joins can be excellent, and the join has a hole in it (for using a key to tighten them) which can also be used to thread a lifeline through so that you don't have to do it manually. They offer a quality product with a low price for what you get, so they're a good, economic buy.

I have had a cable come right out of the connection one time. I've had some connections come unscrewed when I didn't fasten them right, and I've had some connections that developed some roughness due to use.

Knit Picks is a wonderful place to buy from, and they guarantee everything. I mentioned the cable that popped out when I ordered from them, and they sent me two brand new cables, free in my order. I've heard many people mention that they've almost instantly replaced a product that broke or malfunctioned.

In fairness, I should say that one or another of my Options needles were used at least 4 hours every day for about 4 years, and the worst thing that happened was that one cable popped out of the connector. Plus these are very popular needles that see a lot of hard use by thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, possibly a million knitters for many years, so hearing about some problems shouldn't scare you off from them. Think about the times that you've sat on your knitting, or otherwise accidentally done something really bad to your needles, and you'll see that they have a very good record.

One to the Addi lace clicks! The first thing I need to say about these is that I haven't tried them myself. But I've read a load of reviews, and heard a lot from people who own them. But you should take anything I say with a grain of salt.

Addi originally released the set with 4 inch tips in brass with the clear coating. So many people didn't like the short tips that they later released 5 inch tips, and for a while, both were available. Sometime around this time, they changed to a nickel coating instead of the clear coating.

Now, it seems that they may be selling sets with either the 4 inch tips and sets with 5 inch tips. Other news I've heard leads me to believe that only the 5 inch tips are available. If you buy a set, and the tip length matters to you, you should be sure to check and make sure you get what you want.

Everybody seems to love the cables. Very flexible!

I've heard mixed reviews about the joins. They do not screw together like most of the other interchangeables, but rather, click together, more like the Denise needles. Hence, the name. Some people report not having any problems with the joins, and others report that yarn catches on them and it's difficult to move the stitches along them. This may (or may not) have something to do with how well the owners learn to operate the click mechanism.

Some people seem to see right away how to click them together, and others never get the hang of it, and their needles keep coming apart while knitting.

I've just gotten (in my opinion) the best interchangeable needles available. They're the Hiya Hiya Sharps interchangeables. The small set (sizes 2 to 8) have just come out in the past few months, and the large set (sizes 9 to 15) will be out soon.

They're stainless steel, with points that seem to be identical to the Chiaogoo lace needles, and they also have the size imprinted on the tips. Speaking of the tips, you can get the set with 4 inch tips or with 5 inch tips. If you like a more blunt point, they were previously making them with a regular point in both size sets.

The cables are clear plastic, and they are flexible and have no memory (don't keep trying to curl up).

The joins are screw-in, but have a lip that goes over the cable part of the join and seems to make them smoother than most of the joins that screw together. Oh, and did I mention that there's a swivel joint in each join? Well, there is! Some people had problems with the join coming unscrewed during knitting, so the manufacturer included two little pads of rubbery plastic to use for traction while screwing them together, and nobody seems to have a problem with them coming apart when they use the pads to tighten them.

These needles have the same precision feel to knit with that the Chiaogoo needles do.

To top it all off, they have the nicest case that I've seen come with a set of interchangeables, ever! It's made of silk brocade, which is available in several colors. There's a zipper pouch for keeping cables secure, spaces for the needle tips (with a few extra if you want to add more tips), and a zippered compartment for the little rubbery pads and anything else you might want to keep with them, like stitch markers, scissors, etc. It's everything I want in an interchangeable needle case.

The only warning I have for you is that there are so many options with this set that you have to be careful when you buy to make sure that you get what you want. Check the point (regular or sharp), the tip length (4 or 5 inches), the size (either small or large set) and the color of the case. Each set (small or large) seems to cost about the same as the Options, but both sets together give you much smaller and larger needles than you'll get in Options. I really don't like to knit anything that needs needles larger than about size 9, so the small set with extra Chiaogoos in size 9 are perfect for me. And I really appreciate having interchangeables that go down to size 2. I know others really only want the big needles, so choosing to separate it all into two different size sets might be a good choice for most.

Whew! That's a lot of information! And it only covers needles with sharp points! You can see why I didn't want to get involved in reviewing ALL needles!

I hope you're having a good day!


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Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope you have the best Valentines Day ever!

If you'd like to know more about the day, check this out! You might not want to do that, though, because a lot of what Valentine's Day is about is founded on martyrdom. Just skim down to where they talk about more modern celebrations.

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For all you knitters out there, the universe out there has brought you the best Valentine's Day present, ever!

You'll have to pay for it, but the new, revised edition of The Principles of Knitting is out!

This is the best knitting reference book that has ever been written! This is the book that people were selling for $350, and people were lining up to buy it! This has stuff in it that you've never even heard of before!

It's a big book! In order to hold all that information, this book is huge! The best doorstop book ever. You can use it for ballast in a ship! And it is crammed with ways to cast on, increase, decrease, and do anything else that has anything to do with knitting! Amazon has it for a reduced price, too! If you're not sure, order it anyway. If it goes out of print, you may be able to sell your copy for $350. But at 2 am, when you can't remember how to do a particular cast on, and you have to do it right now, this is the book you want. No matter how esoteric the question, you can find your answer here!

It's Valentine's Day! Treat yourself!

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Hi! I'm Still Here.

Sorry!

I know it seems like I've been ignoring my blog and that's true, but I haven't been really well lately.

At the beginning of December, my doctor discovered a problem, and I've been taking tests for it ever since. She seems to think that it's got something to do with my kidneys, so she's sent me to a urologist. My first visit to him was just to have him outline a list of tests that he says need to be done so he can find out what's wrong.

Oh, and he requested that I leave a urine sample.

Before I could even get home, they had left a message on voice mail telling me that they were going to do a lot of tests, and the sample I gave them wasn't big enough to do all the tests. They wanted me to go back and leave another sample.

Unfortunately, although the trip would have taken me 15 minutes each way if I had a car (and that's if every light turned red just in time to catch me and there was really bad traffic), the trip on the bus meant that the whole thing was a six hour round trip. And the trip was arduous enough that although my appointment was on Wednesday the 18th, it made me feel very sick, and it wasn't until Monday that I started to feel better.

So, I talked them into the idea that I should go to the lab (which I'm being told is nearby, and close enough for even me to walk to) instead of all the way back there. I also have to make an appointment for a CT scan, and then an appointment to go back to see them for the final test.

I'm waffling back and forth between hoping that they can find out what's wrong and fix it, and that there's nothing wrong in the first place. There's clearly something wrong with me, but I can't figure it out, and clearly the doctors I've been seeing don't care enough to bother.

The GP, who is new, is the one who found out that I have the problem I'm currently getting tests for, and she wants me to go to two other doctors for problems that doctors have been notable for not doing anything helpful, and, in fact, wanting to do only stuff that makes things even worse, so I'm not enthused about going to either one of them.

On to more pleasant topics!

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In the past, I've read some really good books that really seem to be reasonably modern fairy tales rather than anything else. Some of my favorites have been written by Diana Wynne Jones.

I think my all-time favorite of her books is Fire and Hemlock. My local library has it, so yours might, too. Look for it in the young adult section (along with the Harry Potter books). Don't be fooled by the designation, you'll love it even if you're an adult.

Another one of her books that I love is Howl's Moving Castle , which is even more fairytale-like than the other one. I won't go into a lot about what it's about except to recommend it.

The reason I'm mentioning it is that Howl's Moving Castle was made into a movie, and has been released a while ago on DVD, but will be on one of the Encore channels this coming Saturday. It'll be on three times times on Saturday starting early in the morning. Check your local listings.

Ok, it's Anime, and that's nice, but I don't usually like that. This one, however, would be difficult to do any other way. So, if you like fairy tales, check it out!

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I bought a lot of sock yarn over the internet to make some socks for Christmas presents. The color wasn't bad, but not anywhere as wonderful as the sample looked on my computer screen. This may have been partially my screen that was to blame, but I don't think so. I was disappointed, but I made the socks.

I felt bad about it, though, and saw a great sale on sock yarn and thought I'd buy some really great yarn and make some socks in addition to the ones I already made.

All right, I know that that would make them late, but I haven't gotten to see anyone I made Christmas presents for yet, so at this point, it doesn't make a difference.

So, I sent to Mary Maxim to buy some of their Aloe sock yarn in Sahara (for the presents) and blue (for some socks for me). Well, it all arrived, and I love the sock yarn for me, but the replacement yarn I got is horrible!

The sample of Sahara yarn in their catalog and on the internet looks interesting:

It looks pretty, doesn't it. But the real yarn has the parts that look lavender in the photo looking more like pink. The lime green that you can barely see in the photo is very prominent in the yarn. The stuff in the photo that looks like a sand color seems to be totally missing in the yarn I got. There is some navy blue, which I would think would help, but it hasn't got a hope of mitigating the ugliness of the other colors. I'm going to have to talk to them tomorrow about returning it. I just plonked it down in front of my keyboard and took a photo. Here's what it looks like:

They just don't look alike to me.

The blue yarn for my socks is beautiful! Here's what it looks like:

That photo looks just a little washed out.

More news as it develops.

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I've recently found a website called Knitting Paradise. The main part of it seems to be a forum, and it's really addictive. You have to sign up and be a member to post anything, but it's free. They send you an email every day with a link to the main forums and the top subjects. If you comment on a subject, you'll get emails every time someone else has something to say on the topic. If you comment a lot, you can be snowed under with emails. Just so you know what you're signing up for.

A lot of the people who are members are new knitters or don't have a lot of experience. Some of the questions recur at least three times a week. Some of them recur three times per hour.

So, I've decided to make this blog more worthwhile for knitters by answering some of the more popular questions in-depth in individual posts.

So, you're going to start to see my usual posts interspersed with posts on individual knitting topics. For instance, I plan to make my next post about circular needles. They always made perfect sense to me, but from reading the forum, I've realized that it's not as straightforward as I thought for a lot of people.

In the meantime, I hope things are going better for you than they have been for me. Have a great week!


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Happy Winter Solstice!

The Winter Solstice happened very early this morning, right after midnight. Things can only get brighter for the next six months, although it will probably get colder before it starts to get warmer.

From my viewpoint, both of these things can only be good. It hasn't gotten really cold yet, and in spite of having my windows wide open, it's been around 80 degrees in my apartment all day.

I'm about to make myself sound old, but I really am old enough to have seen a change in climate, and I can see that things are getting warmer.

OK, when I was a kid, I lived in, and later right outside Philadelphia, and now I live near Washington DC, but there shouldn't be that much difference in Winter temperatures. By the beginning of December, we would have had at least one snowfall, and it would be cold enough for us to ice skate almost anywhere there was water, except in the channel of the Pennsauken Creek, where there was running water and it didn't freeze. At this point, I still need to keep my windows open in my sauna (which my apartment building manager euphemistically calls "my apartment") to stave off heat stroke.

When I looked for photos of the Winter Solstice on the internet, all I got was photos of snowy landscapes. But if you look out my window, it really doesn't look like that at all.

It rained today! It was all drizzly and warm (not for Summer, but definately for this time of year). Something is seriously out of whack with our weather!

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I hope you've finished getting/making all your Christmas presents! I, personally, am so far behind that I've given up completely, and explained to everyone that this Christmas is such a disaster that only a few people will be getting Christmas presents, and it has nothing to do with how I feel about each individual, it's based on whose present I happened to make first, and I hope I'll do better next year.

I finished up all the stockings I've been making on commission, and delivered the last three today only to discover that there's a dispute about the date on one of the stockings. Although I put the date I was told to put on it, it may not be the right one. I can fix it, but I'm waiting on confirmation of the date before I do that.

So, the stockings aren't completely done.

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If you're up for it, you can track Santa and what he's up to via NORAD!

I just realized that my former Christmas countdown at the bottom of the page is no longer working, and have replaced it with a temporary countdown timer. I'll get a better one in there soon, but in the meantime, at least you can see how much time is left.

And to get you in the Christmas spirit, here's something that's been wandering around the internet so long that nobody can remember where it came from, but it's a lot of fun:

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all around me
Was unfinished knitting not under the tree.
The stockings weren’t hung by the chimney with care
’cause the heels and the toes had not a stitch there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds
but I had not finished the caps for their heads.
Dad was asleep; he was no help at all,
And the sweater for him was six inches too small.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I put down my needles to see what was the matter.
Away to the window, I flew like a flash,
Tripped over my yarn and fell down with a crash.

The tangle of yarn that lay deep as the snow
Reminded me how much I still had to go.
Out on my lawn, I heard such a noise,
I thought it would wake both dad and the boys.

And though I was tired, my brain was a bit thick,
I knew in a moment, it must be Saint Nick.
But what I heard then left me perplexed-ed,
For not a name I heard was what I had expected
“move, Ashford; move, Lopi; move, Addie and Clover
Move, Reynolds; move, Starmore; move, Fraylic–move over”
“Paton, don’t circle round; stand in line.

Come now, you sheep wool work just fine!
I know this is hard semi, it’s just your first year,
I’d hate to go back to eight tiny reindeer.”
I peered over the sill; what I saw was amazing,
Eight woolly sheep on my lawn all a’grazing.


And then,in a twinkle, I heard at the door
Santa’s feet coming across the porch floor.
I rose from my knees and got back on my feet,
And as I turned round, Saint Nick, I did meet.

He was dressed all in wool from his head to his toe
And his clothes were handknit from above to below.
A bright Fairisle sweater he wore on his back,
and his toys were all stuffed in an Aran knit sack.
His cap was a wonder of bobbles and lace,
A beautiful frame for his rosy red face.

The scarf round his neck could have stretched for a
mile,
And the socks peeking over his boots were Argyle.
The back of his mittens bore an intricate cable,
And suddenly on one I spied a small label.
SC was duplicate stitched on the cuff,
and I asked “Hey Nick, did you knit all this stuff?”

He proudly replied “Ho-ho-ho, yes I did,
I learned how to knit when I was a kid.”
He was chubby and plump, a quite well-dressed old man,
And I laughed to myself for I’d thought up a plan.

I flashed him a grin and jumped up in the air,
And the next thing he knew he was tied to a chair.
He spoke not a word, but looked in his lap
Where I’d laid my needles and yarn for a cap.

He quickly began knitting, first one cap then two;
For the first time I thought I’d really get through.
He put heels on the stockings and toes in some socks
While I sat back drinking Scotch on the rocks!!

So quickly like magic, his needles they flew,
That he was all finished by quarter to two.
He sprang for his sleigh when I let him go free,
And over his shoulder he looked back at me.
And I heard him exclaim as he sailed past the moon
“Next year start your knitting sometime around June.”

-Author Unknown

And here's a little something for Christmas. Check out how to put a twisted fringe on the side or in the middle of something you're knitting here ! This is really cool!

If I don't get a chance to blog before then, have the best Christmas ever!


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Today's Lunar Eclipse

I had intended to blog about this before the event, but didn't realize it was this morning instead of tonight. But since it was best viewed from Asia, most people one the East coast wouldn't get a great view of it anyway.

You can see some spectacular photos of the event here, along with information about the eclipse including links to other sites. NASA's Lunar Eclipse page has more information about this and other eclipses as well as general eclipse information.

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Most of my time has been taken up lately by two things: Finishing the last three Christmas stockings for the commission I'm working on, and finishing the cover of the third Steve Canyon on DVD, plus the slipcover for all three DVDs for people who bought all three. You can see the art, and simulations of the art at the link.

But. I have been doing a little knitting for a new design. I showed this photo in my last post.

I have since finished the whole scarf, and even darned in the myriad ends, but haven't taken a photo yet. It turned out beautifully, though, and I'm reknitting it in a better yarn with a few small modifications, mostly in relationships of sizes and spaces of various parts of the scarf. It has a braided section near each end, making it look rich and gloriously understated. This cries out for cashmere or mohair for a luxurious scarf. It's not what you usually think of as a Celtic Braid, but it really is. And, being a scarf, it's reversible! I hate it when scarves aren't reversible!

And I finally got together the money for a newer computer, which is a nice little laptop iBook (G4). It's not new, but is a big upgrade from the computer I have. I also obtained the software I need to lay out and make PDF files of knitting patterns, so this pattern may be available soon. It's possible I'll also redo my free patterns as PDFs, too.

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Some people have been bemoaning the fact that the Home and Garden and the DIY Networks have pretty much stopped showing craft shows and are only showing home improvement. I can understand it for HGTV, but for DIY, it's inexcusable!

I recently discovered that one of the local PBS stations has more than their original UHF broadcast station and on one of the new, HD stations they broadcast, they show Knitting Daily and Beads, Baubles and Jewels.

A lot of Knitting Daily is stuff I already know, but there are some unexpected gems thrown in there, even for experienced, skilled knitters. One of those gems taught me to do a twisted German cast-on, which is a much stretchier cast on, and almost makes a small rolled edge that I think is very pretty, and so I'm using it for a lot of things. If you want to learn that, you'll have to record all the shows until it comes around again, and then play that part of the show, back and forth until you catch on to what they're doing. At least I did.

The other show, Beads, Baubles and Jewels, has reawakened my desire to make silver jewelry. I used to have a business (Maxwell's Silver Hammer) and made a meager living making silver jewelry. The show is great because although it shows the usual beading techniques, it also shows some very advanced and sophisticated silver work involving torches and other advanced equipment!

I want to buy some silver and a torch!

I've been restraining myself, but I have bought some jewelry pliers and some charms to make stitch markers from. They've been mailed to me and should arrive any day now. In fact, they could be downstairs waiting for me to pick them up on Monday. Packages can be delivered to my apartment building, but we can't pick them up except during office hours.

Anyway, I bought some good quality jewelry pliers at a highly discounted price. They're especially engineered to be ergonomic, and especially designed to fit women's hands, although I think they'd work fine for guys, too. The handles are longer to give you more leverage (like the really expensive ones), and therefore stress your hands less, and the handles are shaped to make the business end at a more ergonomic, comfortable angle to work with. And, on top of that, they're even pretty! I love good tools! They can make or break your work.

Here are photos of three that I ordered: First the round nose pliers .

And needlenose pliers . These also have a cutter in them!

And a pair of longnose pliers .

And if these turn out as great as I hope they do, I want to order the three-in-one pliers . This looks like it would be very handy. Sort of an improvement on rosary pliers.

They also have two different cutters that I can't decide between.

Supplies are important, and they wind up being the finished product, so if you skimp on them, you don't have as good a project as you otherwise might, but tools are forever. You'll use them over and over again and they have the power to make your projects shine, or make them look like they were made by someone who didn't know what they were doing.

I also ordered some charms, and some knitters I know may get some stitch markers for Christmas. If I can part with any of them. I'm even thinking about checking out the jewelry making magazines.

Well, all this hasn't even arrived yet, so there will be a lot more to write about.

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In the meantime, The Holiday is on, and it may be my favorite Christmas movie. I'm recording it, but I have so much to do that I haven't been doing that I need to stop writing and get something done so I can watch it again. It will be on again between now and Christmas if you want to catch it. Just check your local listings, and the 21st keeps running through my head as a date that it will be on. No guarantees, but you could start looking there.

Only 15 days until Christmas!

If you're making presents, better get moving!

Have a wonderful weekend!

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Happy December!

Happy December!

Here's a reminder: If you scroll down, there's a countdown to Christmas at the bottom of this page.You can find out how much time you have before those presents have to be ready.

I finally have a photo of a knitting project that I can actually post! In other words, it's not a Christmas present that the person it's for can see it and ruin the surprise, and it's not another Christmas stocking that's exactly like all the others except for the name and date on it.

This struck me as a good idea, and I've been knitting it in between all the other things I'm doing. The photo shows a project that still has ends to darn in, but I think you'll get the idea that it's going to be a really neat scarf.

In case you're curious, that scarf is actually braided.

I plan to write a pattern for it, and also for a hat and a set of mitts/mittens to match.

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I know I haven't been writing much lately, but that should improve a bit with the new year.

I've been working on a commission for Christmas stockings like the ones I did a few years ago. It's getting down to the wire on Christmas things and there's a lot to knit on them. They're all colorwork, and there are SO many ends to darn in! Not to mention having to consult a chart every few stitches! So, they're really slow going!

In addition to that, we're getting to the end of the Steve Canyon on TV DVDs, and there's suddenly the slipcase to do, and the third cover to finish. A lot of the work on the third cover was done a while ago, but I have a photo to colorize for it, and all the finishing touches (at this point) for the slipcase.

And now I have to get back to work on it all.

Have a great week!

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