Work work.

Another bright sunny morning.  It's great but the temp for the day is only supposed to be 18 C.  That is not going to help the crops and I really feel for farmers.  

I had a great day yesterday.  It somehow resulted in no visible change to either of the active sweaters though there was good progress on my No. 2 chairpad.

  The working edge is at the bottom in this photo. I really am happy with the colours of this one. The crisp greens are the perfect offset to the roses.  When I was digging in my box o' yarn, I picked the greens with no olive cast.    The roses were anything pink ish.  

It feels really strange but it's getting hard to sort colours.  The box is far from empty but these are all the full balls I have left.  

17 balls.  That doesn't divide by 8 evenly.  I will get two more chair pads from these, and then there is a big bag of partial balls, left over from knitting the Flea sweater.  I am going to do those completely scrappy, still using a melange of colours of course, but using a ball up and then moving on to the next colour.  

Uggg.  I just found 3 more full balls.  

I am going to make chair pads till this yarn box is empty.  I am not really calling this fun work but it is needed work.  It's almost driving me to knitting dishcloths, which I may yet do.  I do have some more cotton in the wool closet.  

The stuff of the day

It's been a lovely weekend.  My kids came to pick cherries and my brother came for a bit of a visit while he does business during the day.  There has been knitting and good company and really that is all I could ever need.

So the knitting...

I finished chair pad 1 and felted it.  When you are felting, it can sometimes be a bit of a crapshoot.  This time it felted up to the perfect size.  I would take a better photo but it is currently in use.  Chair pad 2 is underway, though it was not worked on over the weekend.  

Really liking these colours.  It will be my 'fancy' one.  

I did quite a bit of work on the Kauni sweater too.  

I have one more garter ridge before I go into the next stockinette section.  It is a rich purple and I love it.  It's all starting to look like a sweater and this is the place where I really start looking forward to wearing it.  

With the weekend done, I wanted to get to work on another sweater I have had on the needles for a while.

 This is my Hiraeth sweater.  I am almost at the end of the yoke colourwork.  Then the design moves into a raglan for the rest of the yoke increases.  I am looking forward to seeing how that goes as much as I am looking forward to a finished sweater in this marvelous glowing yellow. 

That it for the moment.  I am almost excited for the stuff of ordinary life today.  I can use the dishwasher again.  It's been 6 weeks and I am almost looking forward to that.  Not really.  It's dishes, my ancient nemesis.  Time for coffee and the stuff of the day.  

Using things up.

Classic procrastinator me avoided the sewing room.  Procrastination is my super power.  Instead, I did this.

And, if you are wondering, the brown is short because that is the brown is almost used up.  Only this remains.

There was quite a bit more of one yarn strand than all the others, but I used it till the first strand was finished.  

When I started this brown stripe, I thought I would get 3 rows completed but I got four rows in, short 9 stitches before the browns gave out.  Decent mileage really.  I decided to just get on with the work and started the last purple row right there.  I wanted to use up the yarn to the bitter end.  Mission accomplished.  The purple will go a bit further and will, I hope, make this chair pad, long enough that I do not have to add another colour.

If 8 balls does indeed make a good size felted chair pad, then it's time to pick out the next batch of colours from the bin of Pallette. 

This next pad will be greens and rosy pinks. The greens are pretty accurate in colour here, but the deeper rosy tones look brown.  

The more I work on these chair pads, the more I can't wait to put them into service.  It's a really nice use of yarn I had no plans for and it uses up a significant amount of it.  For the first time ever, this bin of yarn closes easily.