I started this morning by watching NorwegianKnitter on Youtube . Her gorgeous Olga sweater made me need to pick up my needles and just do something with them.
As I mentioned a few days ago, I had started a sleeve and realized that my gauge was way off.
And I am off to a good start. I know it is only two rows but everything counts.
You can see it pretty plainly here. I pulled the sleeve out
leaving me with something akin to a plate full of noodles. I did not pull it back all the way. I wanted to restart with the stitches I had picked up already. Those picked up stitches are often a bit loose so starting with them seemed like a good plan.
I do have more books to move back today. I cannot work as fast as I used to and I am giving all the books a good cleaning and dusting too. Plus all the little side adventures are just too wonderful to stop. I spent a good couple hours looking at and reading my Encyclopedia of World Costume.
It is a compendium of words and descriptions and small pencil sketches of items of clothing over all the centuries of garments up till the 70s. It is a treasury of the arcane. I got is as a library discard and it is a treasured part of my library full the weird and wonderful.
So today will be a day of knitting and books. Add some coffee and it is my kind of perfection.
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