Happy Trails, Fairlane...

The only picture of the whole car I have... (Chevelle blocks the view)

'57 Ford Fairlane is making his way down to a new adventure in Florida today. Fairlane was John's dad's last project car purchased and he did begin some work on it. I'm sure the car would have been beautiful like all his other restorations.

Two guys came up to take a look at Fairlane and bought him last night. They were ready to buy, pending any serious defects in the car or engine, I suppose. They brought a car trailer and considering they were driving up from Florida, I guess it wouldn't make sense to buy the car and have no means to get it home. John said Fairlanes are pretty rare to find as a project car. They're either already restored and running or too far gone. I wish I had my camera on me so I could have taken more pics.

In other news, I started the first sleeve of my mohair sweater and am hoping the end product won't be too itchy. It's knitting up very nicely. I probably would have preferred it to be a more solid color, as this yarn goes from a blue-green to purple-green to yellow-green and repeats that way. I want to duplicate the color changes on the other sleeve. I'm hoping all the balls of yarn are colored similarly so the second sleeve can begin at the same color point and change color the same way.

I'm trying to decide if in the "knitting world", this is too much symmetry. Maybe I shouldn't worry too much about whether the sleeves match or not. I was also thinking I'd like the body of the sweater to match the sleeves too. OK... that would be too much striping. Definitely not trying to have the yellow-green go across the sleeves and my stomach at the same point!

Getting the sleeves similar should be interesting, as mohair is not easy to rip out if mistakes are made. I caught one small error on the first sleeve and decided to rip back and fix it. 12 rows... mohair likes to snag on itself, so ripping isn't a smooth operation. The balance between being careful and being fast is a challenge, but I'm enjoying this project and can't wait to see the end result!