Not Quite

Not quite there yet, but I have to say, I am thrilled at what I did get done.  

I'm really pleased with how it looks and fits.  I debated doing a long hem ribbing but I kept measuring and it was there already.  It's exactly right and that is not always how it works.  Yay me.  

All that remains is sleeve ribbing.  And guess what!  I found another ball of teal yarn in the bag.  I thought all that was in there was two more balls of the STR but down at the bottom hiding beneath swatches and wee tail ends of balls was another ball.  I will easily be able to complete this top without waiting to get at the stash after the flooring is done. 

This week, one day or other is flooring week.  The day is maybe Wednesday but more likely Thursday or Friday.  Keith and I decided that after Wednesday, we are in flooring mode come what may.  Everything is emptied and cleaned and we are ready to go even if the flooring people are not.  

We also had a bit of lovely company on Saturday.  One of my sisters and my brother came up as they played car games in the city.  My sister bought a car and my brother did too.  I am laughing at him because he did not mean too.  It was just a good deal.  Lol.  I understand it though, because yarn.  They have to come back this week to pick up my brothers car.  

 The day feels odd with all my stuff mashed into my bedroom but it's not that bad.  Just crowded a bit.  Never the less I should finish the Geddy Tee today and then maybe, just maybe get started on the next good thing. 

Picking up and knitting the neck ribbing went great too.  I knit it with the larger needles too and I am so happy that it worked well.  I switched to smaller needles for the last round and the bind off so it would hold its shape as well as to prevent the neck from growing. 

Ribbing and Fit and Fashion

Some yarns look so good in ribbing.

There is a crispness that is unexpected in a double stranded yarn.  

I don't go to a smaller needle ever for a bottom ribbing.  The last thing I want is for the bottom of a sweater to pull in.  I didn't like it in the eighties and  I see no reason to change it now.  I rarely change needles for sleeve ribbing either.  The only place I do often choose a smaller needle is on collars.  Collars often stretch and open. I perfer a closer fit on collars and the stability a smaller needle gives.

I remember when I was young and bell bottoms were a thing and my mom saying for her they were old fashioned.  I understand this now.  This is the third time in my life that wide legged pants are a thing.  And leggings?  They wore very very slim fitting pants like that in the early 60's.  Anybody else remember how they had little straps at the bottom to go under your foot so the pants stayed at the bottom of your leg?  They were a 60s fabric version of leggings.  

The thing I like now about fashion that has significantly changed is that skirt lengths don't matter.  There are people wearing minis and knee length and long maxi length skirts for whatever time of day or season.  There are high waists and low waists at the same time.  Wide legs and leggings are both available.    When I was younger, there were no options.

I like that blending, that easing of 'styles' so that all of us can wear what we are comfortable in.  It's the same as how there was fashion for the wealthy through history and clothes for the rest of us.  If my shapes and styles are not what you feel good in, that's great. It is all okay.

I personally like a more unstructured fit.  Less fitted has always been what I was comfortable in. My idea of a perfect sweater is Joji Locatelli's Elton sweater.  I love that those styles are available to me and that I can make them by sewing or by knitting.  

Historically, the very biggest fashion advance in the last century has been pants. It is and has been socially acceptable for most of my life for women and girls to wear pants.   I do recall in grade one, in bitterly cold winter,  how the teacher said the girls were allowed to wear pants on the bus for warmth.  And before very long, nobody said anything if you were a just kid in pants at school. By the third grade girls were wearing pants as often as not.  I also remember that my mom said girls were not allowed to wear jeans to school and that shortly after she said that, even the principals daughter was wearing jeans to school.   That  was about grade four or five.  And now, holy cats, women and girls even get pockets on their store brought clothes.

My personal fashion is clothes for the rest of us.  Clothes that work for the way we live.  I like watching fashion and the blogs and vlogs of what the rich wear as much as anybody  but wear it?  No.  I'm not art.  I'm just me.  And so it is.  

It's going to be dicey to finish the Geddy.  The floors are going in on Wednesday so access to the other bag of the teal yarn is a no go.  I will need two more balls of the yarn so I will knit till the teal is gone.  Then I will have some fun and knit on something entirely different.  A new cast on is in the wind.  

Perfect

It was an utterly perfect day yesterday.  I had no trouble with my hands at all.  I just worked!  It was so good. 

I completed two rows of the filet crochet border and I am moving on to the last section. Remember, this is my variation on a Geddy trim inspired by another Raveler.

I will do a few rounds of stockinette and will then slip into the ribbing to finish the body.  

Perfect.