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Dear Jan,

It feels like Minnesota outside, but it sure doesn’t look like it.  I’m sitting at a desk in Beijing.  Shanghai, where I spent the last couple of days, is quite a bit south and rarely gets snow that sticks more than a few hours.  Beijing, at the same latitude as Minneapolis, has real winter.  It makes me a little homesick. 

Waiting for me at home is my Rime Frost Bohus sweater.  I think I’m satisfied with where I netted out on the sleeves.  What do you think?  Here is the poofy sleeve with the short rows that advanced one stitch per round.

And here is the version where I advance 3 stitches per row, easing less fabric in with each short row.

I like the way my strategy for short rows has created a real shoulder cap shape.  Here it is just after finishing the complete circle - you can see how the shaping emulates a flat knitted set-in sleeve.

 Wilson will also be waiting for me.  I wonder if the moustache he grew for Movember will be waiting with him, or if it will have disappeared like a snowfall in Shanghai.

Yes, that last comment was just an excuse for a gratuitous Wilson photo.  I sure miss him.

I miss you, too.  I hope we can see each other sometime soon!

Love,

Ellen