Finished?

With all the fuss and bother of the last few days, I have been putting off weaving in my ends on my Geddy Tee.

There are a lot of ends. Or so I have been telling myself.  It really no worse than any other garment.  It just looks bad because I left all the ends nice and long so I could weave them in well.  Plus, the double stranding.  It's a mess.

Since it is so hot today, I am dressing easy.  I did have a minute where I felt a chill as the fans started up, so I grabbed this tee and slipped it on.  Goodness I like this tee.  A lot.  It fits me so nicely.  And that is how I finally started weaving in ends.  

I am really hoping to get in some knitting today.  It's three days now since I knit.  I am feeling twitchy, so it's time.  I am going to work on the yellow till I get the back of Lunan done and then I will set it aside to work on the Shalom pullover.  That has a lot of visual interest and is fun to work up.  That's my weekend work unless I cast on something else that is new and fun.

Settled again

There was absolutely zero knitting yesterday.  It was the day to restore order to my house.

This is a library on its way to reconstruction.  I had two helpers and it took all day.  We took short breaks and one of my assistants went walking to our downtown to pick up lunch.  We worked steady and not too fast but fast enough to get the job done before their mom came by to pick them up.  They did a great job and I am so thankful they helped.  By the end of the day, we had this.

We shifted the TV a bit.  It's been in the same spot for 10 years and now that all we need is a plug in, it was time for a shift.  I'm not going to put all my foo faraw out again.  Some yes, but a little less is fine with me.  It just needs to feel homey to me.  

The other thing about getting things back to order is that I can now get to my yarn again.  The bookcases were standing in front of the wool closet and you cannot imagine how it feels to be able to get back in there.  It is not that I needed anything there.  It's just that loss of a small freedom of access that was surprisingly hard to bear.  

The other thing mostly cleared out is my sewing room.  I am going to finish my two pairs of pants that just need elastic and hemming, today or tomorrow.  I will be so happy to have them.  They are light weight airy fabrics and should be perfect for summer wear.  

I did get to the underarm shaping on the yellow Lunan sweater and hope to get that done as well as the sewing.  So it will be a busy day ahead. 

Good knitting

I'm free! I'm free!  The floor is done and looks good.  It's is an almost perfect match for what we had before and yet it is oh so different.  

I had a great knitting weekend.  

I knit to the middle of the first multi colour band...and then I ripped it back.  Too many stitches too soon caused the whole thing to ruffle up.  A ruffled top is not a good look on a person.  Not when it is supposed to be smooth.  Real ruffles are great but look very different.  

The restart looked better immediately.  

Much nicer.  

I have just finished the second round of increases and I am ready to move on to a longer needle.  Once I do that, I will be able to see if this second round is right or if I need to do another pullback and do a different rate of increases.  

It's close I think, but I want better than close.  I love how it looks.

I will be working on the yellow sweater today.  I want that just as much but a solid single colour sweater needs a bit more determination and stick to it  than a many colored joyous thing.  I want it so I must knit it.