Getting on.

Okay world.  I am ready for spring.  You can stop it with the snow.  It would be very pretty if it was November.  I am so over snow for this year.  I shall make my day by watching Kew Gardens on YouTube.  Even the winter there is striking and leaves me feeling better.  There is a ton of Monty Don on Britbox too, all of which will make my soul stronger.  I may yet get through this most recent pile of snow.

I kept my knitting to spring things yesterday.  My top is growing.

This is going to be today's work as well.  Two row stripes are lyrical.  Ridiculously lyrical.  

I did stop knitting on this about 2 p.m.  I still wanted to knit so I picked up socks and did a bit.  I only have about an inch to go on the cuff till I switch out to the cream.  

I did want to make a mention of something I only realized this winter. 

Remember my advent socks?  

I love these socks and wear them a lot, but each time I do, I have one thought.  These socks are too long. The cuff is much longer than my usual cuff, and it's just not premium.  I love to wear them though.  They remind me of the fun I had making them.  But they are too long.  My perfect length is this.

I fold the sock at the heel and if the cuff and foot are equal, it's perfect. It works just right with my kankles and thick calves.  

Time to go have some Rice Krispie squares.  It's a perfect breakfast, right?  And maybe a glass of orange juice.  Almost healthy.  

Repairs

Having decided that I was giving myself a day off from my cotton top, I faced up to sorting out my MashUp top. Here is where I was when I caught the error.  Okay.  Not quite true.  After after my first attempt at fixing it.  

Utter fail.  

I have no problems with repairs unless it is garter stitch.  I understand what to do and on rare occasions repair it first try, but generally, I mess something up.  SO this time I wanted to unravel a few more stitches and then to flip the sweater just as I would when knitting.  

It looks like a bit of a blip where the earlier repair was, but all is right and will be sorted out once it is blocked.  

That was enough for the day.  I have no idea why, but I was mentally fried after the job was done.  I think I build it up to being a much bigger deal than it was.  

I prepared what I needed for today's soup (pea soup), I made some rice Kristie squares for a quick treat and that was the sum total of my day.  Besides the usual laundry and dishes (The bane of my existence) of course.

It's back to work on my cotton top today.  Back to work.  Back to stripey joy.  And supposedly back to another day of expected snow.  Oh well. You take what you get and there it is. 

** I just realized how different the colours in the photos are!  The first is the truer colour.

Still going

I woke this morning and had no idea what day it was, Monday or Tuesday.  I was pretty certain that it wasn't a weekend day but... It took a while till the world righted itself but right itself it did.  Monday, Monday.

I had a good weekend knitting.  Not great but good.  I knit as much as I could on my Tshirt.  

Joined below the arms!  

I love working on this.  Two rows is so liberating and creative somehow.  I've not done two rows that often if at all for a sweater so it's nice to know that I like it.  My next plan for  Kauni sweater is two rows.  Two colourways.

Sadly, it's cotton and even though I am loving it, I can't knit too long on it without my hands feeling it.  I quit when I feel it.  In fact, today is going to be a no knitting it day.

I alternated knitting the top this weekend, with this.  

I only have the cuff left!  It feels like this is going fast.  Fast but there is a wee problem.  See that stitch marker?  I dropped a stitch on one of the short rows.  I probably ought to have gone back and redone it but you know me.  I can live with it, right?  Right.  I really can.  I will stabilize it when I am weaving in ends.  

The snow here is looking rotten.  It will all be gone soon.  The sun has too much power to be defeated now.  However...it is going to be stormy and snowy and rather miserable over the next few days.  It is the way of springtime in Canada.