Steiped.

I finally started on a sweater from the plant-dyed yarns I bought at last year's Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival.  I want another warm sweater to wear in Iceland, and decided to knit something that would be like a jacket.  Unfortunately, the sleeves are a bit close-fitting, but I don't have the time (or possibly the yarn) to redo anything.

Here's the current progress, you can see how the gold yarns shade in tone:

I am still deciding whether the sleeves will have
a garter stitch cuff, or ribbing, and what colour(s).

I use the safety pins on the sides to track decrease rows, and also the length.  To work the sleeves to the same length when I have only a single ball of colour, I pinned a couple of points together:

Also from this week, my irises are doing very, very well this year:

   

The photos are from three days apart, the plant in the back of the lefthand photo.  It's been very hot and I didn't water, so they didn't last as long as they could have.  Since it hasn't rained much, we're on water restrictions.