Knitting Work

It's a sunny morning today and yet far from spring.  There is usually a point in March where I feel winters back is broken and spring is here but this year?  Not yet.  It remains winter.  Maybe next week?  

I didn't do a lot of knitting yesterday.  I got nicely deep into the green part of the Kauni.  

It isn't going to show much here but I am halfway through this set of 10 rows.  

The other thing I wanted to show was this.

I wanted the center of the neck ribbing to be at the back of my neck but I wanted the beginning of the rounds to be at the raglan increase part.  You can see the ends yarn marking those.  I don't do it often but on the garter stitch neck band it seemed like the right thing to do to minimize the slight differences in the way garter stitch looks where the rounds meet.  

I am wearing my Lusk sweater this morning and am reminded again how much I like the fit of this sweater by Rebecca Clow.  It also reminds me how much I want to knit another.  I think there will be at least one summer knit in this pattern and I want to make a blend of Ysoda Teague's Anyday sweater and Lusk for a yarn in one of my project ready bags.

I hope for a bit more knitting today.  I also hope the dishes do themselves and that the floor sweeps itself so...oh well.   To work.  If all work were knitting work how lovely it would be.  

Just Different

It was a great weekend.  I made my raisin bread and have been enjoying raisin toast with peanut butter or cheese.  And Keith made some peanut butter French toast.  Yummy.  Plus it was the Japanese Grand Prix.  What a great race.  

And knitting.  Oh my.  Wonderful doesn't begin to describe it.  

That brown you see is actually purple and I utterly love how it looks.  There is an intensity and a depth to the colours that don't show up in pictures.  What you can see is Kaunis very gentle change to green which is the next colour in the skein.  It fades so delicately.  Sigh.  I love Kauni and I am glad I have a good stash of it.  

It's also lyrical knitting.  It changes before you ever get tired of the colour or the stitch.  Now you may think all that garter stitch must be tough but not if you do it the way I do.  I wrap my purls the wrong way and the result is that knit rows are knit through the leading leg of the stitch, the back leg, and the purls are my normal purl which is easy and flows just like a knit stitch.  When I started knitting everyone told me I was doing it wrong.  I learned how most of you do it and now, when I knit, I knit to get what I want in the most comfortable efficient way.  There are places and times when my way is better and y'all are doing it wrong.

In knitting, if you get the product you want, and if you are enjoying your knitting, you are NEVER knitting wrong.  Hold that to your heart.  If you understand what everyone else does, and you can do that and you find a better way to get there in your own inimitable style, you win in every way.  

When someone says you are doing it wrong, just smile and tell them it's not wrong. Its just different.

Ooooooo

Now this is fun.

Though my photo looks Grey, the Kauni is a muted worn denim blue, purple, green, light denim blue range of colours (The colourway is EF)  

I think you can see the reason why I went with this lovely soft heathered brown for the garter stitch sections rather than the initial choice of cream.  The creamy oatmeal would look harsh against these very muted hues.

Somewhere in the next two rows the colour will morph from blue to the hazy purple.  It makes me giddy with joy.  A very simple joy.

I know I ought to be working on a sock today but I am going to stick with this.  Next week, I will go back to the Mashup and make that my weekday work and leave this treat for weekends.  That does seem to have worked in keeping my progress on several projects through the winter.  There will be sock knitting somewhere this weekend but for now I will stick with the pretty.  

I am making some raisin bread today for toast and for French toast.  I have no idea where the idea came from but as I was setting puzzles yesterday, it became a need.  It looks like a day with lots to do, all of it fun.