Blankets

This is the most fun knitting I have done since my first Flea sweater!  

Keith said put it on a stick and go flag down planes at the airport.  I am not sure he likes the colours as much as I do. This seems to be filling every corner of me with silly, goofy giddiness.

It hit me this morning that I have three blankets on the go.  Willow World and the fun one are always in my mind and clustering around my feet, but for some reason, I don't put this project into the blanket category when I am thinking blankets.

I am not exactly speeding along on this one.  I only pick it up once a month or so.  No.  That isn't quite right.  I pick it up and move it almost every day because it really is in the pile at my feet.  But work on it?  Once in a while.  The lone blue square is the one I made the other day.  I didn't pop it off the loom and remembered it this morning.  Which is where this conversation began. 

It's odd how I have compartmentalized these blankets.  One is knit in one piece with two colours.  One is knit modularly and one is woven in separate parts which will need to be put together when I have enough squares.  

I recall saying once that I was done with blankets.  Ha!  Look at me go.

I am going to do some work in my sewing room today.  It needs a good sort and order.  Somehow there are blankets piled on my sewing table and boxes of miniature making things under them.  My sewing table has two pairs of light pants cut and ready to sew and on top of that there are fabrics that should go into the remnants box.  Which is full.  Which is why they were stacked on the sewing machine.  You see how it is.  There wasn't room for them so it all swelled into a mess that overwhelms.

Well.  I need the cut out pants.  I need some skirts and light cotton or linen shirts.  I need those very soon.  I also know how I want to use some fine wale corduroy and what I want to do with my wonderful black and red plaid.  I can see me wearing those two fabrics and would like them for winter.  My soul needs a fabric dive.  My wardrobe needs a sewing session and my miniatures needs to be freed so I can make the garden for my house.  

And I really need to finish the rosy purple Plieone.  

So much to do.  Not nearly enough coffee.  Ah well.  I am making friends with my teas and I will get it all done eventually.

Odd Perfection

I woke up today feeling sluggish and moody.  Not grumpy but not my usual self.  Sort of sad but not sad.  A bit down but not down.  Just not really ready to connect with anything or anybody.  In a mood that could easily go sideways if I let it.  Time to get out of my head.  Time for a mood boost.

Time for a bit of fun knitting.  Today's colour is brilliant yellow.  

I have to say that one wee thing I am a bit obsessed with is this.

Everytime my eye catches this bit of paper in the box with the yarn, I fall in love all over again. It's almost like a tiny perfection.  Almost art.  Not really but it it is enourmously pleasing.  

OK, I am on to knit on the blanket and oddly enough, I feel a bit better already.  

Thinking, thinking, thinking.

The cherry tree is in full bloom.  From tiny budlets to full bloom in one day.  The maples behind the house are still a bit scraggly but they are filling in.  

And the rosy purple top is still under way.  This is where knitting starts to feel sluggish.  The job now is to keep moving along and to keep my eyes on the prize, the top.  Dreams are how I get through this period.

I saw a vest pattern on Ravelry.  The Moema Top is by Mochiknits.  I have no idea why it came to me but I suddenly saw it in a yarn that is in my stash that I don't know what to do with.

The yarn that popped in my head was three skeins of Socks That Rock, one of the really trend yarns in 2010 ish.  I did not record the colour name in my stash but it's a rusty navy concoction that swept me off my feet.  Years ago.  I meant to make a crochet vest with it from the book I talked about a week or so ago.  And then I meant to make an Elton like sweater with it and some lovely rich rust Ultra Alpaca I have.  And then I did not know what to do with it.  But maybe a vest top like creation in brioche or half fisherman rib?  Maybe.  

I would need to use another yarn with it.  It would be a bit short meterage for even a vest.  At the very least I would need to use a second yarn for all the ribbing.  The Moema Top gave me the idea of two colours layered as in two colour brioche.  

I need to dream on this idea.  I need to mull it.  I need to swatch it and see what will happen when the yarns combined are on my needles.  That means a bit of a dig in the stash but that's okay.  I need to get out a yarn from there for another idea.

Today there will be top knitting and then I am going to go into the sewing room to see what is what.  There is some very interesting sewing stuff at hand.  There are pants to make and some summery circle skirts and cool shirts.  Then there is a whole other category of interesting.  More on that another day.  

Time for tea and knitting and some nice thinking of interesting ways to use some really nice yarns.