The Slump Feeling is Gone.

The slump is over.  I find myself very engaged in the next big things.

I cast on another Tolsta Tee using the  Butterfly cotton in the marine blue and gold.

I love these colours so much.  The gold is not my colour but so long as it is away from my face, I am okay with it.  In fact it is one of the colours that I wish I could wear easily.  I love that mustardy gold colour.

I cast on with a 5 mm needle, thinking about the way this yarn wears in my washer and dryer care of it.  I need to knit this fairly loose.  Pattern gauge is fairly loose so it should work, right?

 

It looks pretty good but it felt wrong.  Way to loosely goosey.  

This is just laying there, not blocked or pulled out in anyway.  It just felt wrong, so wrong that I did not even check it for gauge. I went back to the neck ribbing and started over with a 4.5 mm needle.  I did not want to go smaller because a previous top I made with this kind of cotton on 4 mm needles ended up fairly tight once it was washed and worn.

Better?  You be the judge.  

It feels better than with the 5 mm needles.  It seems to make a more put together fabric.  I still have not measured for gauge but I am certain I am close. The fabric is what I want and if it is close, then I will go with it and will adjust on the way to finishing it.

And the Hacho sweater?  I have worn it since it was finished.  I love it.

The yarn is so lively as I have always known it would be. It just moves in the most wonderful way. The perfect thing for spring. The narrow ribs flip a bit but the proof will be in the proper blocking, whenever that happens. And if it still flips, oh well. Who sees it but me? 

I will knit on this new spring Tolsta today but I also pulled out my Mashup top, inspired while by the way the colours looked while digging in a bin of yarn.  

In is eye popping and just makes my heart beat faster.  I started it last year but then ran off and then got sidetracked by a Tolsta.  The yarns are Silk Garden Sock and Elsbeth Lavold Silky Wool and both are in the fingering range.  It is all garter stitch on 3.5 mm needles and those things combined mean no matter what, it is going to take a while.  Still, it is an easy uncomplicated shape. A relaxing sort of knit. 

Do you ever just want to jump and shout out to the world how much you love knitting?  That is how I feel this morning. I do though I am long past the age where jumping for joy is a smart thing for my knees.  But I feel like it.  Yes.  The slump is over.  Well and good to be getting on with.