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.

The Rosy Purple Top and The Cherry Tree

The cherry tree finally unfurled its tight leaf buds.  They still are tiny nubbins but Saturday morning you could see the tiny flower buds sitting, waiting.  By Sunday afternoon, a few tiny buds were beginning to bloom.  This morning, lots of blooms and I expect it to be fully blossomed by the end of the day.  It all goes so fast.  Plus the dandelions are out and glowing brilliant yellow in the lawn.

That was just part of a good weekend. It was the Canadian Grand Prix and it was wonderful.  But with the addition of F2 to a calendar with F1A, there was a lot of racing.  It was great but long.

However...

I hoped, I dreamed that I would get the top done.

I have completed the fourth lace repeat which wouldn't be too bad because last week, I thought five repeats would be it.  However, a lace repeat is only 3 inches long.  This top needs to be sixteen inches long and I am only at ten.  I will need to do at least two more repeats.  Oh well.  The slow weekend  knitting meant I was going to be working on it today and another repeat of the lace means it will be on the needles at least till Wednesday. It's a good thing I am enjoying the knitting.

After this top is done, I will allow myself a bit of blanket fun.  I may even let myself pull back the row with the error in it on my Willow World.  Two blankets to consider.  Wow.

Till then, top, top, top.  I will knit and get it done.