The best days

I did it!  

Joined to knit in the round.  I really like the way this looks and I am so happy to be at the knitting in the round point.  The back, as I have interpreted the pattern is wide and it was oddly tedious  to knit.  It's not wider than my usual tops, it just felt tedious.  The fronts were fun.

I am pretty pleased with the vneck too.  When you mangle a pattern, things like necks and sleeves can sometimes not get the right look.  That right look all comes down to how often I did the increases.  I picked the right ratio for the gauge first time and the neck was ready to join at the same place that the pattern does.  Perfect.

I have no idea what I did yesterday other than this visible evidence.  It is what it is.  Maybe I was planning again and I know how that can defeat me.  The best days, just like the best knitting, just happen.  

Time to get ready and get a move on it.

It was another good day of knitting.  

The right front is ready to go.  I got about an inch past the short rows on the left front too.  There would have been more but I had to have a stunning realization first.

I picked up my linen swatching first thing in the morning.

I changed to a 3.75 mm needle from the 4 mm I had started with.  I hoped that would give me a nicer fabric.  It did but I really wasn't enjoying it.  I thought I'd see if crocheting was the right thing.  It wasn't.  I feel bad but I think this is going back in the bin. It simply did not feel right and life is too short for work that is not fun.  Oh well.  

I am going to work on the Geddy Tee again today.  It's is just so much fun to knit.  Then I will get to work on Veera Valimaki's  Piennar sweater.  Swatch first.  I am about 100 meters short for the amount of the main yarn, but I have plenty of the cc colour.  I think I know what I am going to do if I end up short of the main.  

First off, I'm thinking I will make the solid sections a row or two shorter.  I'm also going to use only cuffs instead of making the very short sleevelets and if needed, I will use a section of the multi colour in the bottom ribbing as well as the sleeve ribbing.  With a tiny bit of luck, doing these things will help me finish the top as close to the original look as possible.  

There is still a bit of cleaning to do and if I am really quick about that I will get to finish my current pants over in the sewing room.  If I am not quick with the cleaning, sewing will happen tomorrow.  I realized on the weekend why it feels like I am short of pants.  I have two pairs made in a sweatshirt fabric.  They are a bit warm for summer wear and I have not been reaching for them very often.  So I have pants but not seasonally adapted pants.  Still, I need pants.  And I want skirts for the ultimate summer cool.  I also want something from my red and black flannel and my rose fine whale corduroy  and so many other fabrics I have at hand.  

I have stacks of things to do so it's time to get moving.  

A Full Weekend

Heat one week, very cool the next.  That is the story of the last few weeks.  Somewhere in there big heavy days long rain.  What was looking like a great cherry crop is done.  My poor tree lost all its blossoms.  Oh well.  It is what it is.  That is how it goes with a single, short flowering crop. Overall, the rain was lovely though.  As is the cooler air.

It was a very good knitting weekend.  My hands and my heart were on the same wavelength.  

The back and part of the right front are done on my Geddy Tee.

Work will happen on that today.

By Sunday morning, I needed to do something else.  It wasn't a "I'm sick of you" feeling.  It was to prevent that kind of feeling.  

This does it every time.  I thought about working on some socks but these brilliant colours called my name.  It should be noted that the orange and hot pink photographed to look exactly the same.  I tried to get some variation but nope.  This is what the camera saw even if the top square is part pink and the bottom one is orange.  

Last weekend was the Monaco Grand Prix.  The racing was great in every way, but it absolutely highlights how I am not the same as the average Joe.  They kept doing these long scenic shots of the bay and the mountains and the tiny principality of Monaco at the edge of the sea.  Every time they did, I felt nauseous.  Seriously nauseous.  They kept talking about how beautiful it was but that overly packed humanity, that feeling you could walk across the bay without touching water made me ill.  The city with an emptier bay would have been better, but that mass of human engineered stuff...

If I traveled I would go to far places, empty places, not cities but places where you could see and hear the earth breathe.  I would go where you could see far.  But that is me.  I just want to be.

And that is enough of that for the day.  Time to sew and knit and clean.  I like the first two.  The last, not so much.  Oh well.  At least the laundry is caught up.