And then I finished it again on Saturday. So far this is the only finished photo and it only shows me trying to see if the neckband was OK. It was not and it needed to be reknit. That took next to no time at all and then it was finished finished as we say. Finish is finish the knitting. Finish finish is weaving all the ends in. Finish finished finished is washing and blocking. I wear it right away and do the blocking bit because hey. New sweater.
And then I did something I am a bit surprised about. I completely forgot my Flea sweater. I picked up my gorgeous London Fog sweater and got it back on to needles. It was off for a try on and good think about what I was doing. All good now so it is ready to go again. Did I knit on it? No.
I cast on a Lusk sweater. I have been wanting to do this since the pattern came out a few weeks ago.
It's coming along really well. It has the same European shoulder construction that the Anyday Sweatshirt has. I know what needs to happen with this shoulder shaping now so I am going to knit one of the Anyday pattern soon. But first Lusk. Lusk is getting made in Incense, a wool silk and bamboo blend from the sadly long gone Elann, and a pure alpaca, Alpaca Peru from Diamond Yarns, a discontinued yarn. (Deep stash as it all is.) I hope they will drape and hang in a similar fashion.
The only problem with knitting a Lusk is that it means I am not knitting on my next Tolsta. I had been planning to knit a Tolsta using a broken seed stitch pattern with white to add some texture and some colour. I am so looking forward to it that I decided that I could cast on another sweater. Because why not. I have not emptied my WIPs bin at all but I was celebrating. (It was a great F1 weekend.)
The very beginnings of another but very interesting Tolsta. The yarns are both being held double. One is from cones of Jaggerspun Heathers in a wonderful mossy green and the other is a cone of CWM Mulespinner one ply in cream.
This is a swatch I did with the singles to give you an idea of what I am aiming for. Isn't that fun? I have knit several pairs of Broken Seed stitch socks and have always wondered what the pattern would look like in a sweater.
And through all of that, the Flea sweater never crossed my mind. So, it seems that Flea is going to be my working week sweater. That will be hard.
NOT
I am really looking forward to all the marvelous colours again. And I can't wait to wear the sweater.
Goodness how I love knitting. It is an endless exploration of yarns, colours, shapes, techniques, patterns and so much more. And I have a lifetime more of places to go in knitting. After all these years, I feel as if I have barely begun. How great is that?
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