Action Not Reaction

I did not quite make my goals for the weekend and you know what?  That is okay.  Our western culture is goal oriented but having goals is a very negative thing for me.  It is just one more thing that I am not going to reach or manage to do, and right from the get go, it makes me feel bad. It is getting better now that I am old. I know that my brain reacts this way and I try to keep focused on action not reaction.  And I try not to set goals.  Silly me for doing that on Friday.  I must have been tired. 

I did not quite finish the first sock. I might feel bad about that except

I am at the point where I usually start the cuff and am thinking about what kind of cuff I want.  It will probably be a normal 1 x 1 rib but it is nice to think about trying a different way. Folded over cuff anyone?

Most of my knitting was on my Hacho yarn Lipstick sweater.

The Lipstick sweater pattern is a cardigan but since I almost always wear cardigans open, I am making a ridge of the same twisted stitch rib that is used through out the sweater to take the place of buttons and buttonband and I love the way it looks. I don't remember if I talked about that before. The sweater is starting to look like clothing now.  I do enjoy when that happens, that magical thing where a project changes from being a blob of yarn and needles and turns into a garment.  I made it to the second set of hip shaping increases so I did treat myself to something different.

 Instead of the bright yellow Folklore sweater, I decided to play around.

I frogged my Rust Flax and Wool sweater.  I wasn't wearing it at all and that was a huge shame.  I have 4 unused skeins and a bit more that I salvaged from the previous garment iteration and want to make ... something.  I am kind of leaning to a vest with a good wide and deep collar.  

That might be because I felt cold all day yesterday but then, I have been considering making more vests this winter.  Now that I am properly medicated, I don't feel cold in quite the same way.  It isn't that deep inner cold that was impossible to escape from no matter now many sweaters I wore.  When I feel cold now, throwing on a single worsted weight sweater is enough and much of the time a turtleneck shirt and a sport weight yarn sweater is enough. Yay me.  Now that my sweater chest is recharged and my problem is being sorted, maybe a vest is the way to go?

Half the fun of knitting is the actual knitting, but the other half is the adventure of the choices I get to make as I go.  Even so today is going to be a day in the sewing room. I have another pair of pants on the go, some nice cozy fuzzy on the inside pants for particularly chilly days and I am looking forward to sewing some other very interesting to me makes for winter and for spring.  Lots to do.