Lots of Things

Till now, fall has been warm though it reliably cools at night.  Last night, we had a truly blustery wind, a batten down the hatches sort of wind, where it withered between the houses and whistled and moaned.  Along with the bluster, the air shouted fall.  It smelled like fall and moist old leaves.  It was lovely.

It was a good wind up to what was a great weekend.  I felt ditherey and unsettled and just could not get into anything.  Sometimes I fight that feeling and sometimes, I give in to it.  I gave in and took joy in the diverse things I did this weekend.  

  The first thing I worked on was a new pair of socks.  This is Fiesta from Drops, their newish Dk sock yarn.  It's wonderful to work with. I am knitting these using a 2.75 mm or 3mm needle.  The two different measuring tools I use say different things.  It really doesn't matter though.  It's a great size for socks with this yarn, whatever it is.  Heels, cuffs and toes will be in the plain green but they are still fun. Ι was sort of dreaming of making another pair with a purple for toes and heels but the yarn line has no deep rich purple.  

I was a little leary of knitting too much with this size of needles.  I decided to knit something else to be sure I did not set off a flare of wrist inflamation.  I decided to go with my Musselburgh Hat.  It is a similar size needle (3.5 mm) but a much looser fabric to the socks.  The larger diameter seems to help too.  

You can see that I got some decent progress in.  My special, much treasured evil eye stitch marker is acting as progree keeper here.  A friend brought these back from Turkey a few years ago.  It's perfect for the job.

Sunday afternoon was on me before I got a bit bored with that.  I pulled out a big box of yarn from the stash.  

This is a full tub of Berocco Comfort Chunky.  It's a lovely acrylic yarn, bought a long time ago for blankets, hence the limited colors.  However, I feel no pressure to make blankets right now and what I do want to do is make Cassie a sweater. She is really into the dropped shoulder slightly over sized look so popular right now.  I wanted to make her a Petite Knit Cloud sweater.    This is the perfect yarn for her but very different from what the pattern is designed for.  

 

I have the Cloud Sweater pattern, but if I am off gauge anyway, I am going with something I understand without thinking.  I am basing this on the Lusk and am doing the math.  It's just barely begun, but so far, looks pretty good.  

And that was my weekend.  It was a lovely breakout from project monogamy.  Today feels like a good day to go through my yarn stash.  I have a bit of an itch after pulling out the Comfort Chunky bin.  I'm looking forward to dreaming of knits for the near future.