Yarn Along: Pascha Knitting and pre-Lenten reading

It's Cheesefare week!!  Last week for dairy before the Great Fast.  I'm still evaluating what my Lenten reading list is going to be, but for the moment, I'm trying to get through a few things I'm in the middle of.

Currently on my nightstand:

James Smith's How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor, and The Magician's Nephew.  I've never read the Chronicles of Narnia, and this seemed like a good time to start.  The Smith book is a very good diagnostic book for the current age we find ourselves in, but I'm hoping he gets into some prescription soon, because I've more or less taken his basic point.  Full disclosure: the introduction is, at times, painfully obvious and hand-hold-y, but then the first chapter is almost unreadably obtuse.  The later chapters are better going.  I think it is worth taking in.  I'll write more when I'm finished.

One down, one to go!  I'm making sweaters for the girls to wear with their Pascha dresses this year.  This one is for Ponchik.  I still have to block it and put buttons on, but at least it is done (and fits!) I have a set of six vintage buttons that are a good match, and each sweater will have three, so it works out well!  I've got enough yarn to make Birdie's sweater plus caps and possibly leg warmers too.  Since Pascha is so late this year (May 1st), I know they won't probably wear the caps or leg warmers this year, but will save them for next winter.  

I'm also making the girls' Pascha dresses.  I was hoping to make a Dottie Angel-style frock for them , and I ended up adapting another pattern because the child's version *just* came out.  I did a mock up of one of the dresses in a different pink fabric, and will mock up the other for proper fit soon.  The girls are close in size in ready-to-wear clothing, but the pattern sizing is really wonky (*shakes fist at Big Four Pattern Co. crazy sizing/ease*), so I had to cut a smaller size for Ponchik.  At least this one fit Birdie well enough!  I can't decide if I should try and fit the Dottie Angel child's pattern for the Pascha dresses instead.  Decisions, decisions.  I lean toward just working with what I have for now, since I have a deadline and limited energy, and fitting the Dottie Angel frock for the next dresses I have planned for them for summer.

I'm going to make some matching fabric caps too, since I bought more than enough fabric and I have a cap template I can use.

This is the fabric for their Pascha dresses:

Still working on this green Saucy Librarian pullover--finally to the bottom ribbing (which goes on for a bit, but at least is more interesting than the plain knitting in the round):

Hoping to finish it before next winter, but I've set it aside while I finish the girls' sweaters.  I have two other cardigans I'd like to have done before this sweater, so it will probably have a good long nap this spring.  I'll be happy if it is done and blocked by December.  

Linking with Ginny for Yarn Along!