June happenings

June is going quickly.  It had been pretty warm but today there is rain.  Our rivers are full to overflowing from the record snowpack in the mountains so of course it's raining.
I've done something a little crazy.  I'm knitting my first sweater. I bought a 2 pound lamb's fleece a few years ago. It's Border Leicester cross.  I had washed the wool a couple years ago so it needed carding and spinning.  My hand cards were a gift from the person who first enabled me in starting spinning.  So I've been carding and spinning this wool and suddenly decided to knit a sweater with it.  I'm knitting Flax, by Tin Can Knits. It's a beginner sweater and I hope I'm doing well with it.  Realizing that I'm going to run out of the fleece, I've inserted 3 other 4 oz skeins of wool the I had spun from Spunky Club wool.  But still I may run out.  I'm almost done with the body and then I will do the sleeves. Tonight I hope to try it on and see if I can start the ribbing around the bottom.  But if I don't have enough for the sleeves, I'm not sure what I'm going to do.  The fleece is kind of a cream color and it's surprisingly hard to match these things. I'm headed to fiber festival this weekend so maybe I can find something that will work.  Or maybe a solid color for the second half of the sleeves?  Something that kind of goes with the other stripes of multi color?

So let me know if you have an opinion.  The sweater doesn't have to be  perfect.  It's going to be heavy and very warm I know.  The next one will be better.  That's the point, right?