Lunan

I am one happy puppy this morning.  A pattern I have been waiting for has launched.  

Lunan by Rebecca Clow

I saw her wearing this on her Creabea YouTube channel months ago 

and I knew I would knit it one day.  I just knew it would be mine.  I love the collar and the ribbed look is perfect.  I love the crew neck.  I love the sleeves.  

Right now, all I can think about is what yarn to make it with.  I need/want to do a stash dive to pull out something to knit it in.  It might be perfect for some of my cotton wool blend and I can see it looking gorgeous in some of my Maddelinetosh. 

I have things to finish first, an Anyday Sweatshirt, a Folklore Sweater and Linger to start with but as ever, the desire to work with some new yarn, a new pattern and new colour will drive me on to get them done.  

Forward

The redo is finished and has been worn.  I decreased the cast on stitches by ten stitches and that worked much better.  I also knit several rows longer and it fits just right.  

I didn't knit anything else yesterday.  No reason, it just wasn't what I felt like doing.  I was preparing to move a bunch of things to my room so that the living room can become the kitchen et al for a bit.  We are redoing the floor in the kitchen and moving the island to be a regular cabinet.  We both hate this particular island.  It is not electrified and is a standard height.  It is just a thing in the middle of the room that makes the dining area small and weird.  The biggest reason we are doing this is that the flooring has utterly failed.  It started in front of the sink, with the backing of the flooring separating from the top layers.  The top layers stretched and it became a beast we could not stop. By the time we are done, it is going to be a fresh big room that we will be happy to work in and eat in.

This morning I am back to knitting.     

The rust stripes are a lot of fun.  

I am debating about sleeves at the moment.  When I started, I was thinking of having a sort of tab sleeve, very short and not closely fitted.  I think that is what I am going to do, but we shall see once the body is done.  It could also look really good with a fitted sleeve.  I wont really know till I actually start.  

Success and a Redo

I am not much of a goal setter.  Setting big goals always feels defeatist to me because I set unreasonable goals and then feel like a failure.  If  do set goals, it is something immediate, a sort of goal setting on the fly.  

That is what I did yesterday.  I was looking forward to seeing the third and last colour block of stripes that it became an unconscious goal. I only realized how much of a goal it had become when I reached and felt like  I could finally set down my needles. 

I went to bed feeling really content. I really like it.

And this morning, finally it was cool enough to wear my second Tolsta Tee again but there is a problem.  The first fits so right that I didn't question anything on the second.  It fits great, but the neckline s too wide for comfort.  

I need to take off the ribbing and redo it a bit longer and with fewer stitches so that it pulls in just the tiniest bit.  I may have been counting on the shrinkage after the washer and dryer to make it fit perfectly but no such shrinkage happened. It did a little but after wearing it a bit this morning, it is more 'relaxed' than I prefer it to be.  Next Tolsta will start with fewer neck stitches if it s a cotton tee.

So my days work is laid out and my second cup of coffee awaits. Success and a redo.  That is my world today.