What I can

First up, Stash Down Diaries has a nice post about Woolstock East.  Not so much from the show, but you can really tell she had a great time.

I made it to the end of the purple section on sleeve one.

I have the next garter section to go before I move over to do the purple on sleeve two and through the green and a final garter section to finish sleeve two.  I am so close to finishing.

I want to show you my progress/not progress on my chair pad.  I have some fleeting upper arm pain that is making this project go slower than the other pads.  Crochet seems to bother my arm more that knitting.  

I love the strong contrast on this one.  It is much much more interesting to work on than the bag of tawny greens.

And that's it for today.  I wish it was more but there it is.  I do what I can and am happy with that. 

Yarn Festivals and Sharing the Joy

I went to the Manitoba Fibre Festival yesterday, courtesy of  MyPinkBathtub-Diane on YouTube.  A great event.  There were lots of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta yarn dyer and farm producers and all sorts of good things.

I love following youtubers as they go through festivals.  I don't get out and watching these fill me with the joy stepping into a yarn shop gives me.  I watch Amora loves yarn on YouTube as well.  She loves going to yarn shows and it's wonderful seeing all the colours and the sheer joy of it.  She is British so most of her shows are from Great Britain but it's great to see what is going on over there.

The South Sea Podcasters I watch (Australia and New Zealand) have gone to several shows that I really adored.  Its how I get my yarn thrills without the danger of purchasing.  I have a hard enough time avoiding yarn buying online at the best of times.

The one place I seriously would love to go is Sandnesgarn's outlet shop.  Oline from Norwegianknitter goes once in a while and it is one of those places that just made me salivate.  I love me a good discount section.

And Briggs and Little.  Every once in a while someone out there goes to their shop at the mill and it just makes me cry the way it did when I went there and sat, all alone in the store while the ladies had their lunch.  It was a dream come true to be surrounded by all that yarny goodness.  

I am kind of hoping that someone out there gives me a bit of a show from the Prairie Fibre Festival too.

I miss yarn stores.  Who wouldn't but I get a lot of pleasure from watching other people go, and I really appreciate them sharing the joy.  

 

Everything

I worked a little bit on everything this weekend.  

I have 2 sleeves well underway.

They are about half completed.  I know this because my plan is to knit to the green and that is only a purple section away on both sleeves.  It looks like little progress from Friday but it is a lot.  Half done.  I keep telling myself that.  Maybe it will keep my MOJO strong.

On Sunday, I went in another direction.  I made a decision on something I was waffling on.

I loved knitting the rib on my nascent Sock Monkey sweater.  The more I knit, the more I became concerned about wearing the rib over time.  I don't want to knit a sweater only for it to grow to oversized.  I want a sweater to remain fresh looking.  Not crisp but not sloppy either.  I want it to make me say 'I did this' when I put it on in the morning.  I want it to feel good.

This

Has become this.

The same idea but no full body ribbing.  I have taken the time to add a couple more stitches to the edges before I did the increases.  I love how that wider edge looks on the back of a sweater with a European shoulder.  Otherwise its going to be a nice basic sweater with a good strong 2 x 2 ribbed edge in the red and cream.  

I guess that really isn't everything.  I did feel like working on my bright yellow Hiraeth sweater.  I didn't get there because I plain ran out of days.  That's going to be my main work once this Kauni miracle is completed.  One master work at a time.

This morning it is back to the chair pad box even if the morning is rapidly ticking away.  Time for tea.  Time to get to work.