FUN

I was in and out of the sewing room/guest bedroom the other day and found this. My sister Kathy.  Hahahaha

I hope I can keep it till I have a guest again.

This weekend I did something different.  Usually, weekends are not that different from weekdays.  I am retired after all and with the F1 season over for the year, time could drag without marking weeks somehow.  I mark weekends by knitting something different than I had been working on all week, watching something I don't watch on weekdays, doing something out of routine to mark that passage of time.  My usual routine, particularly since I started all this blanket making, was to knit on sweaters or something just for me.  

This weekend, I picked blankets.  I am so looking forward to getting all these big things done that it felt quite selfish to knit blankets only this weekend.  It was great!

I got quite a bit done on the last of the Sock Monkey Cabin Blanket. 

If you look carefully, you can see the turquoise of the marker in the middle.  That marks where I started at the beginning of the weekend and there were a few more rows completed after I took the picture. By the end of the day yesterday, this blanket measured 30 inches.  Half done.  I am very, very happy with this progress.  

I wondered how my hands would take it all, but when they were tired, I picked up Cassie's Larksfoot Blanket.  Maybe I could crochet?

And yes.  I could.  Cassie's blanket is at 28 inches so also half done.  

This is very big news for me because at the start of the weekend, both blankets were distressingly short.  Each was at most a quarter to a third complete.  It felt as if I would be working on blankets forever.  I like working on both projects, but there are so many more things I want to knit.  Small things, big things, red things, blue things. Other things.  Any other things.  I love my kids but I want to retire as blanket knitter.  Seeing this progress is very rewarding.

I did squeeze in a little time everyday to do my advent sock. 

This is entirely selfish knitting.  And it feels really good. Though it is a simple plain sock, and though it isn't from an Advent calendar from someone's shop, it's been oddly fun, good cheap stash busting fun. (Not that sock yarn is technically stash yarn.)  It is my usual 7 row stripes with a three row pop of white in between.  Like so many things Christmas, it feels like such a silly fun thing to do, this purposeful knitting of one stripe and only one colour stripe each day, is fun.   

So blanket progress on all blanket fronts?  Christmas sock knitting?  Fun.  A ridiculous amount of fun.