Giddy Getty

Good morning!  Pbthththth to the weather.  It will not get me down.  

I knit on my striped Lusk in the morning but by afternoon it was time to set that aside and rest my wrists.  I decided to pull out something a bit different to do.  

I started a Geddy Tee by Tanis Lavallee last year. I did a couple of the crochet granny squares to see if my yarns would work.  They do!  And then I let it sit, always meaning to get back to it.  

I was lucky.  I left the tools in the bag.  That was a relief because I didn't remember what sizes I used at all.  

I now have 4 squares ready to go.

They just need to be sewn together to make the saddle shoulders of the top.    It's really quite simple and a genius design.  This is why I pay for patterns.  I want to keep people who see something different in a yarn or technique,  creating, so I can have the fun of making it.  

However, as much as I love the Geddy Tee, I am not going to make a granny cardi.  Not my thing, not even in the 70's.  But this touch of granny squares, is just right and very unusual.  

It helps that my yarns look really great together.  One is a sport weight Socks That Rock from eons ago, and the other is a humble very fine fingering weight in this deep gorgeous teal that will be held double.  

I am thinking about adding a wee bit more of the ricly multi colored STR near the bottom of the tee.  Not as granny squares.  I did think about that but a row of them running around me is too much, too wide. Maybe three rounds of filet crochet, or in other words, the groups of 3 stitches that the grannys are made of.  Something to think about as I knit the top.  

This morning is the Lusk Tee again.  After that, who knows.  

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.