A Cheery Sort of Knitting

Several days of mostly knitting on this lovely lovely sweater and it is once again at the point where it is really starting to look like a sweater.  

I am really loving knitting this.  The lace of Carol Feller's Tabouli to keep my attention and Joji's good bones from her sweater design.  

I am also really enjoying knitting this much smaller size.  If this was a sweater for me, I would just be getting to the part where the increases really needed to take off so that the garment hung properly around my hips.  On garments for me, it is the part where I sigh and start dreaming of the next thing because I know how very much knitting there is going to be till the garment is complete.  This sweater for my daughter in law, is so small that if I knit carefully on it for two more days, that it will be where I start measuring to see if it is long enough before I start the lower back hem.  No matter what, this is a speedy knit.

The next sweater is going to be even faster.  It is thick yarn and giant needles again, in a fairly small size.  It might go even faster.  The knitting coming up is just so exciting!

At the same time, there are lots of other things in the wind, things for fall knitting that I can prepare for now, so that when it comes time to knit them, I am ready and waiting.When I was winding yarn the other day, I pulled  for Olga's sweater, I pulled out this yarn.  

I love this yarn.  I have always loved this yarn.  Hacho from Mirasol.  It is one of those multi colour things where each colour section will be only 2 or three stitches long.  It is the kind of thing that requires a simple pattern with good clear lines to show off the magnificence of the yarn.  Or maybe not.  I paused writing for a moment and had a good look at this colourway on Ravelry and I think my favourite is a project in garter stitch.  Very interesting.  

  

Is this going to be the yarn to knit the very intriguing Build a Bigger V from Deb Gemmell?   It might be.  I really am interested in this pattern.  After all who wouldn't be.  It starts with casting on five stitches.  No gauge swatch.  It reminds me very much of the kind of thing EZ did.  Deb Gemmell seems to be putting the knitter in the drive seat and showing us how to be really in charge of our work, just like Elizabeth.  I love that.  

I anticipate a lot of knitting today.  I am going to put a roast on for supper and I am going to knit the afternoon away listening to the most fascinating book.  

I am reading Trevor Noah's Born a Crime, the audiobook version, of course.  It means knitting and reading at the same time, the two things in the world that I love most.  That I am reading it now has nothing to do with yesterday's post.  This book has been on my list since it came out, always there in my wish list.  In truth, I had kind of decided it would be a library listen.  I wasn't sure I would listen to a kind of memoir a second or thrd time, so why purchase it.  There came a point where I just felt no urgency to purchase another mystery and I had the credit waiting so... I am so glad I did.  I will listen again and again, just like I did to Einstein and Leonardo and Nash's biorgaphies.  It is not a book to escape into which is what I usually read.  It is not a book of sorrow or comedy.  He  isn't trying to be funny.  He is just telling stories that are compelling.  Sad, joyful, funny, illuminating compelling stories of a rather unusual life in an unusual time.  I highly recommend it.