On my needles Jan. 8...

As I mentioned a few days ago, I'm hoping to blog more often, and also to take part in more challenges.  I posted my knitting progress a few times in Judy's "On the Needles" posts last year, but I'm going to try to participate more often this year.
So, here's what I'm working on now - my nephew and his wife are expecting their first child next month, and there's going to be a baby shower soon.  They've decided to wait to find out the baby's sex, so I tried to find a pattern and yarn that will be gender-neutral - and I think that I've found a great combination! This is the back of what will be a hooded, cabled sweater from a  King Cole pattern book, design #7:

The sweater is almost to the armhole decreases - rather "mindless" knitting to this point, but I'll have to concentrate a lot more carefully for the fronts!

Check out here to see what other folks are working on!