A year has passed since I last wandered over to this blog and updated my fiber work. A busy year to be sure. And since it is August again I've got another bad case of 'startitis' going. It is actually a late summer ritual I thoroughly enjoy.
In the list this season are the following: three pairs of socks, three new shawls: Bridgewater by Jared Flood, The Elizabeth Zimmerman anniversary Pi called Hearts, and a honking big triangle in a mohair blend. The latter is the furthest along but it is currently too big to work on in August heat. Much easier to work on the center panel in B'water which, while lovely, is endless. Working that shawl in Misti Alpaca lace on 3.75mm needles, definitely endless garter stitch here. What makes this do-able and a pleasure is having a set of Signature needles to work it on. Bliss is possibly the better word here.
I have a strange passion for working circular shawls, but of the several I've done the only one I've kept is the Girasole. I did make an EZ Pi Shawl in handspun but I'm not liking it so much now and will rip that out to re-use the yarn for socks--as soon as I have another Pi to replace it with.
In the sweater department we have Peasy, only needs front bands and to re-do the cuffs where somehow I skipped a row of garter and the cuffs look weird. Current big project is Glenna C's Basic Black which I'm knitting in a dark navy cashmere/merino blend from Colourmart in the UK. Beautiful fiber making a gorgeous fabric--love working on this. Another heavier sweater is in time out until the evenings are a bit cooler and that only needs front bands and pockets to finish it.
Completed earlier this summer: Two versions of Wendy Johnson's Seaside Shawlette for gifts.
The best part of being under-employed in the earning way is I have loads of time to knit, and clearly I'm making damn good use of it. Taking EZ's advice to knit through crisis--actually makes the crisis disappear from the front of my mind at least while I focus on patterns and stitches. Better than therapy in my opinion.
Next task is to take some photos of works in progress and finished to show you what I've been up to.
Plan not to let this blog languish quite so much, easier to do when I don't have to go out to a day job. Have a writing job of course, but today this passes as my warm up exercise.
More anon....
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