Too tired to knit

I'm beat.  There was no time for knitting till I was too tired to knit.  On the upside, the living room looks like this.  

It is more or less usable but all the fun stuff is shifted out.  What is left can easily be moved in the space of an evening.  We are as ready as we can be for the floor guys.  

Today, I will move all but the projects in the WIPs bin.  It isn't really the the overflow is active projects but more, that they are projects ready to go.  There are four bags and the Sweet Shop Blanket I am working on.  There is a needle case and a table with stuff I use regularly.  They can all be moved to my room for the duration.  The WIPs bin itself can be moved the night before.  

I will take my tea cup and tea kettle into my room for the duration and then, my world will be much smaller.  Keith and I were joking about setting up a fishing rod out my large window to play fish pond for food, bahahaha.  We did talk about me going to a hotel for a couple of days but that would be far more difficult than sorting out staying here.  It wouldn't normally be that way, but hey, I am more or less stay at home and I have things set up so it's manageable.  And for a good part of the time I will be able to roam  Once the floor is laid it will be two days till it is cured enough to use.  So it really only a  couple days and I can manage that.  

It really become a mental game of deciding not to feel stuck.  This is where I feel really lucky.  I knit and therefore, any time where some people would feel stuck, will be really good knitting time.  I am hoping to finish up the Geddy Tee before all this is over so that when I am free from my cocoon, I can start Piennar or Lunan.  Or both.  

No knitting? !!!

I did not get any knitting done yesterday.  Not one stitch.  I finished that cleaning I was avoiding and then, found some more of that to do.   There is always more of that to do.  Why is this taking up so much time?  For one, I am slow.  For a second thing, I we are having our floors replaced.  Again.  

We did it two years ago but the click flooring was a bad choice.  Every joint in heavy wear areas failed and it looks awful and feels awful.  The material actually has lifted and ripped out.  Away from the joins/cracks, the plank flooring has been great.  In low wear areas, it looks impeccable.  But overall, it has been a big no.  So we are getting new floors again.  

This means everything off bookshelves and out of all the main rooms.  All the furniture needs to be compressed into my room and the sewing room.  Last time we shifted things as sections were completed.  This time it all needs to be out because Keith is getting someone to do it.  It will be over quickly and will be done in a couple days instead of the week it took Keith last time.  So cleaning, packing, moving stuff.  Sigh.

I did one other big job yesterday.  I depilling one of my favourite sweaters.

This has been worn and used and loved.  It's BFL 2/8 and is so wonderfully soft.  However that softness leads to a lot of pilling.  Not excessive but it does pill.  I haven't depilled in far to long and after the job was done, the full ball was the size of a baseball.  The lovely thing is it looks almost new.  Till I looked at this.

Inside needs depilling today.  I realized how bad it was after I put it on after I did the outside and found I was still absent mindedly pulling off pills.  It's pretty bad, even on the back which comes under less friction during wear.  Still, it's a job the needs doing.  

There will be knitting today.  No big chores today.  I am resting up for tomorrow when we have some help coming to shift and move and do the heavy lifting.  

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.