Again with the ribbing.

Again with the ribbing.  

I had really hoped to get it done but because I am aiming for 5 inches of ribbing, I knew it was just a dream.  I can't do that in a day.  I deeply and sincerely envy those who can. One more day.

I am mostly going to be working on some boxes.  When Keith did the flooring in summer, one of the changes he made was to take out one range of cabinets.  We did not really use them.  He put in a set of shelving to replace them and I really like it.  The only thing I miss is the junk drawer. A kitchen without a junk drawer is inconceivable to me.  

My job is to make the drawer boxes for pens and paper, batteries, basic meds.  I am making the boxes like this tutorial.  

Pretty simple, yes?  Making them is going to take some time, though and there are 5 boxes.  That's a lot of cardboard to cut and a lot of fabric to sew.   I am using the bolt of black cotton that I bought in spring.  It's really nice knowing I had it on hand and that there is lots available.  Fabric stash.  It's a good thing.

Ribbing!!!!!

Ribbing!

I stayed with seven rows of lice (the pattern has nine) but I did add a couple more rows of plain stockinette to match the space before the lice began.  So lazy but not really.  Just right perhaps?

I have been thinking about sleeves.

The original Cait pattern has the same design at the colour change on the sleeves.  I am not sure that the scale it is, at my gauge, is going to look right on the sleeves.   It worked on the body because, let's face it, I have a lot of body to cover.  I am thinking about just doing lice on the sleeves and the stripe of red.  If I had enough of the grey, I would do the sleeves all grey.  I do have enough white but all white sleeves were vetoed at the start of the sweater.  I am closing in on a finished sweater but there are still lots of things to think about.

About my thoughts on dealing with the dark of winter, I decided to take one step at a time.  I started by watching Vlogmas episodes on Youtube.  It is hard to stay feeling a bit down when people are having so much fun opening tiny packages of yarn and other knitting goodies. I thought about ordering a calendar back in June, but I prefer my mysteries in books not yarn.  Jana's Finnish Knitting Stories is a great place to start and I love Annes' My North Knit Corner.

  I also watched another Advent calendar featuring two guys who are opening a bit of an array of advent calendars and picking a daily winner of what was in the calendar.  Keith was watching while he made himself some coffee, and it sounded like fun.  It was.  They are on my watch list this season.   If  you might be interested, the channel is extraashens on Youtube.

Last year one of the things I did was to knit striped socks from my stash of plain sock yarns.  It was fun.  I thought about doing it again but using black or a dark yarn as a main yarn with the same colours of stripes.  I am not really in a sock mood right now where last year all the knitting was all blankets and socks. I am just going to keep on with my sweater kick, I think.  

Making that decision felt good because it allowed me to pick which of my yarns I was going to work with first.  I pulled all those yarns out a couple weeks ago and my hands are itching to start working with them.  I think my first is going to be a Tolsta Tee long sleeved variation with the green Jaggerspun and some sort of striping with the creamy Custom Woollen Mills single. 

Right now I am playing with the idea of making two garter ridges, rows of yarnover, knit two togethers, followed by two more ridges of garter stitch in the white. That won't be firmly decided till I am knitting the sweater. 

As sure as I am that the green will be the next sweater the pretty blue is calling loudly too.  I do like the idea of a Felix Pullover for it.  

The blue will be so pretty with the lacy raglans of the Felix.  

Well as much as I could talk all day about the next sweater I will knit, it is time to go and finish the body of the current sweater.  And my coffee cup is empty. Time to get on with the day.

Almost There.

 I did something different this weekend.  I stuck with knitting the same thing my sweater.  

It is almost long enough.  I am planning for a rib at the bottom.  The question is do I stick with my current 7 rows of lice and a good long rib or do I do two more sets of lice and a shorter rib?  Two more sets of lice would make the body quite long and I am not sure if  I want that.  I have two more rows of stockinette before I have to decide.  

The body of the sweater is almost done.  Sleeves won't take long because of the dropped shoulder. So yipeee.

I have been feeling a little down this last week.  I suspect it is just the darkness of winter.  I can't change that but I can change the things I am doing to address it.  I need to look at what I have been doing  reading, watching, knitting, thinking about, to see what I can adjust to make winter feel better.

Let's see what I come up with.