Rainy Sunday and I finished two projects today.  I started this sweater about two years ago and ran out of yarn at the very end.  I spent time scouring the internet for the same dye lot with no luck and then forgot about it.  I am hauling out some UFOs to finish, kind of a spring cleaning, and ordered a skein of a different dye lot to finally finish this.  Sometimes whites can be funny, but think I am OK.
 This v-neck is from the Erica Knight book Classic Knits, Timeless Designs to Knit and Keep Forever.  The title is a good one, but all the patterns are knitted flat and I rarely knit flat anymore.  Mostly I prefer top down.  However, I did knit this in the round from the bottom up and separated at the sleeves.  But the sleeves I did knit flat and next time I make this I will pick up stitches at the armhole, do short rows for the cap and then knit flat to the cuff, just like I did on my Audrey Sweater.  This way you get a much better fitting sleeve as I think this sleeve is a little too big on this sweater.

Still, just love it, simple and flattering and the yarn is lo-ver-ly.  Cathay by Debbie Bliss is a tad splitty but if you use smaller needles, I used 2 and 3 instead of the recommended 5, you get a better result.  Oops, just found out this has been discontinued but you can still find it on the internet.  Here is the sweater on Ravelry.
The rose is Climbing Blaze.  It's an easy care rose and re-blooms all summer and into fall.
 My husband's favorite color is red.  We have lots of red roses!
The metal arch that once anchored it in place has rotted away at the ground and now the roses are doing the anchoring.
We have over 100 roses and I love them all.  I really think it's amazing that I have this beauty to look at in my own garden and my husband and I really appreciate it.  It is A LOT OF WORK, but luckily, work we both enjoy!

Eyre shawl is being blocked, it's so beautiful and I'll show it tomorrow.