Yes, instead of sewing up my Alpaka Tunic or knitting on Rosemarkie I’ve started yet another shawl.  This will be my third of the year, believe it or not.  I’m making Miralda’s Triangular Shawl from Knitted Lace of Estonia in Valley Yarns Franklin on size 5US/ 3.75mm needles.  The shawl is started at the lower edge, casting on 300 and some stitches, then decreased to the center top.  I’m about half way through the second border now and it is pretty slow going.  There is just a lot going on here, nupps, directional decreases, yarn overs and shaping and borders and long pattern repeats.  It’s not the best computer knitting since there isn’t really any straight stockinette, except on the wrong side rows which are mostly purled, but it’s not too bad to knit on in front of the TV.  I have to say that this is right up my alley, it is a beautiful pattern that is fun to knit.

Everything else has pretty much stalled.  I noticed a big, giant mistake in Rosemarkie that totally threw it off, I don’t know what happened, I guess I wasn’t paying enough attention to my chart and shifted the pattern over by about ten stitches, so I had to rip back about five or six rows and re-knit that part.  It wasn’t a big deal to do but it was annoying.  I’ve only been knitting a few rows on it here and there but I’ve knit two full pattern repeats so far, I think I’ll get a movie this weekend and knit on it some.

The Alpaka Tunic is all ready to be seamed, it only took a couple days to re-knit the yoke but I keep putting the seaming off, I’m just not in the mood to mess with it.

My next project is going to be a cardigan for my mom, I’ll talk more about it when I get the yarn and I want a nice, light, Spring cardigan for me but I think I’ll wait until the Spring IK comes out to decide what to make.

Now, I have a tax question.  Please, someone have an answer for me.  All my income last year was from being self-employed and I got a 1099-MISC, no W-2’s.  So, what forms do I need to fill out?  Is it the 1040-C and 1040-SE and the regular 1040?  Do I need to fill out a 1040 at all if I didn’t get a W-2?  I have done my own taxes every year that I’ve had to file since I was 16 and this is the first year I’ve ever been confused about it.  Ok, I just did some googling and I think I get it.  I read this and the comments on it and it looks like I have to use form 1040-C or C-EZ to figure my net profit and if that is over $400 (which it is) I have to use form  1040-SE to calculate my Medicare and S.S. taxes and then I attach those forms to a 1040 and send off my tax payment.  Anyone know if this is right?  Because it looks that way to me.  Maybe I’ll just try TurboTax.