Mine. All mine.

Friday again.  I feel as if it can't possibly be, as if there were days missing and yet individual days have dragged.  Not sure how that happens but fast and slow at the same time?  Hmm.

I started a sleeve yesterday.

That was after the try on and oh my goodness I am so pleased.  I may add a tiny bit more on the bottom but otherwise it looks and fits really good.  

The sleeve is going to be very simple.  I want it three quarter length and I want to have a good bit of red and cream cuff.  I don't want it too fitted so not too many decreases.  Just a nice flowing sleeve.  

I feel very good about this whole process.  There is just something wonderful to me about making my own clothing.  Making is such a rewarding thing.  It's intense satisfaction and pride that I can do this.  It's mine and nobody can take that away.    

The plan?

A little of this.  A little of that pretty much describes my week thus far. 

My sweater is at the point where it is time to start on the arms.  Because I am not sure how wide the shoulders are and where the sleeves will start, I am having some trouble deciding how many stitches will be needed for each sleeve.  That means a try on is needed.  

I am trying to do a bit of evening knitting lately.  That is shawl territory.  Each of the last few evenings, I knit 3 or 4 rows and call it good.  That little bit of extra knitting makes my thumb go buzzy so it is time to stop.  

I have not resorted to knitting on socks.  That will wait.  

I have been thinking about blankets lately.  I have 2 on my needles.  One is my cheerfully bright Sweet Shop Blanket

and the other is, well...it's in flux.  I have started a Willow World blanket, an ode to Willow pattern blue and white china.  However...

I am not really sure I want this any more.  I am not a huge colourwork knitter and I feel that I would rather put my colourwork energy into  a sweater.  I have been thinking very seriously about changing it to be something brioche or fisherman's rib.  Nothing complicated, but something that shows off the lovely blue colour that Marcus and Cassie picked for me ever so long ago.  I know that my last half fisherman's project did not finish particularly well.  

This is my Linger Vest.  It's a pattern from Knitty.com, the Linger sweater, which I still love but could not finish because the double worsted weight of my yarns was too much.  I love to wear it though.  It is seriously cozy and warm.  I really enjoyed knitting the half fisherman's rib and would like to do another half fisherman's rib project.  Maybe a blanket?  

Sweater first.  Then big blankets.  That's the plan.