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This year's sweater is completed!

( Sweater picture! )

They don't show in the picture, but the sleeves also have cablework - they've got braids that run down from the shoulders to the cuffs.

I'm quite pleased with how this one came out - the way the main cable repeats work meant that it's overall a little longer than I originally planned, but I like it. And I managed to not get bored knitting the sleeves, so they're the proper length as well. Working in worsted weight yarn is nice, since things knit up so quickly.

The problem now is that I've been devoting a lot of energy to this sweater and now I have to decide which of my other knitting projects gets that energy next.

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This evening, I'm planning some Halloween spookytimes entertainment for myself later in the month. (My sister does a 31 Days of Halloween thing every year, which I admire, but I find that if I try to do that, I lose steam halfway through the month. Thus, I am having a Halloween Fortnight.) In past years, my Halloween entertainment has revolved around finding and watching newer spooky stuff, but this year, I want to revisit spooks I know and love. So I'm going to watch a lot of 1930s and 40s horror, and reread A Night in the Lonesome October and my John Bellairs collection.

But, in perusing my John Bellairs collection, I've realized that I don't actually own The Mansion in the Mist (which is one of my favorites) so I've been looking at what's available at my various libraries. Which leads me to a question:

Have any of you read any of the Brad Strickland-written "John Bellairs" books? Are they worth reading? I am wary of them, as I am wary of any author taking over for another, but some of them have extremely good titles.