Seeing Something Different in the Yarn

Oh my, this is looking so good.

I am so utterly pleased with this.  It is exactly right.  

Yes it is cheap cotton not often used for clothing but why not? I would use kitchen string if I did not have anything else at hand. I crocheted a top years ago out of Handicrafter cotton and the only problem with it was the stitch pattern I used was too open for wear in the office without a camisole.  But it worked.  A Ravelry search before I started this top shows I am not the only one who makes garments with this yarn.  

The cream is a some ancient 1824 Cotton that I have had forever.  I tried making tops 3 or 4 times with the yarn before but the tops just never happened.  

This entire top is a whim.  I was putting yarn away after my last dive and as I was putting this last box away, I just saw the yarns in it, in a different way.  That sometimes happens to me.  I have a bunch of yarns and one day, magic happens and I see something different going on between the yarns.  I see something new and occasionally brilliant.  

Next week, I will show you one of those.  I can, now that I know what I am going to make  happen.   

Back to the cream and white Lusk top.  I am just going to keep working on it.  I would like to get it done fast because I can really use the top on my spring and summer wardrobe.  

Repairs!

The snow is retreating and it was warm enough that the back door was open for a few hours yesterday afternoon.  Such is spring and it is good.  

I did knit on my cream and white Lusk Tee formost of the day.  It's moving along nicely.  I am at the point where I will do the last bit of increases and then will just knit for length.  I want it longer than normal because cotton.  It will shrink up some and I want it to be long enough to take that into account for wear.  My black tee from last year was not knit with extra length and is too short unless I wear it as a topper over a dress.  I do not want that to happen again. 

I have also been dreaming about my next summer top, which will be made with a yellow wool and cotton yarn.  I am debating between a sweatshirt style or something with lace details and I can't seem to decide.  I am waffling.  

I did do repairs yesterday.  I pulled out my yellow Cascadas Tee to repair the neck where the thread had broken.

It seems I was really efficient at some past point and it was already fixed.  Yeay me.

Then I pulled the yarn from the box of yarn and sorted out the cuff of my Green Elton .

And voila.  Repaired and wearable for the season.  I think that is it for garments needing repairs at the moment.  I am glad that job is done. I don't mind repairs.  It needs to happen but it is like sewing patching.  It's good when the pile is gone.

I dug out some socks to work on later today.

Nothing fancy but a good sock and a third.  There may yet be more than one pair of socks this year.  

That is it for today.  Time to get to work.  

Always knitting

Time to show my cream and white Lusk Tee.  I am really pleased with it. 

It's looking like a  summer tee.  I am ready to wear it too.  

I've been pulling out the summer tops lately.  It started with sweaters that needed repair, one of which was my Green Elton sweater (a Joji Locatelli design).  I pulled it out for repair and then all of a sudden I am reaching for it every day.  And I haven't even repaired it yet.  It is my perfect spring garment.  Light but warm.  I wear it over my summer knits and it just works.  It's getting to repair today.  

I repaired my Lusk sweater yesterday.

One sleeve was bound off too tightly and I could not push the sleeve up to get it out of the way while I did house stuff.

I love the way these sleeves gather at the wrist.  I wasn't sure I would but I do.  As long as I could get them pushed up to my elbows for work. It wasn't quick work like I thought it would be.  I had trouble finding a needle that would make the cuff do what I needed.  It is possible that I had fewer stitches on that sleeve.  Not sure really.  I did get it sorted out though and both sleeves now push up to my elbows.

So, on to knitting.  On to repairs.  On to socks, maybe.  But knitting.  Insert a big smiley face here.  Always knitting.  It carries me.