No knitting? !!!

I did not get any knitting done yesterday.  Not one stitch.  I finished that cleaning I was avoiding and then, found some more of that to do.   There is always more of that to do.  Why is this taking up so much time?  For one, I am slow.  For a second thing, I we are having our floors replaced.  Again.  

We did it two years ago but the click flooring was a bad choice.  Every joint in heavy wear areas failed and it looks awful and feels awful.  The material actually has lifted and ripped out.  Away from the joins/cracks, the plank flooring has been great.  In low wear areas, it looks impeccable.  But overall, it has been a big no.  So we are getting new floors again.  

This means everything off bookshelves and out of all the main rooms.  All the furniture needs to be compressed into my room and the sewing room.  Last time we shifted things as sections were completed.  This time it all needs to be out because Keith is getting someone to do it.  It will be over quickly and will be done in a couple days instead of the week it took Keith last time.  So cleaning, packing, moving stuff.  Sigh.

I did one other big job yesterday.  I depilling one of my favourite sweaters.

This has been worn and used and loved.  It's BFL 2/8 and is so wonderfully soft.  However that softness leads to a lot of pilling.  Not excessive but it does pill.  I haven't depilled in far to long and after the job was done, the full ball was the size of a baseball.  The lovely thing is it looks almost new.  Till I looked at this.

Inside needs depilling today.  I realized how bad it was after I put it on after I did the outside and found I was still absent mindedly pulling off pills.  It's pretty bad, even on the back which comes under less friction during wear.  Still, it's a job the needs doing.  

There will be knitting today.  No big chores today.  I am resting up for tomorrow when we have some help coming to shift and move and do the heavy lifting.  

The best days

I did it!  

Joined to knit in the round.  I really like the way this looks and I am so happy to be at the knitting in the round point.  The back, as I have interpreted the pattern is wide and it was oddly tedious  to knit.  It's not wider than my usual tops, it just felt tedious.  The fronts were fun.

I am pretty pleased with the vneck too.  When you mangle a pattern, things like necks and sleeves can sometimes not get the right look.  That right look all comes down to how often I did the increases.  I picked the right ratio for the gauge first time and the neck was ready to join at the same place that the pattern does.  Perfect.

I have no idea what I did yesterday other than this visible evidence.  It is what it is.  Maybe I was planning again and I know how that can defeat me.  The best days, just like the best knitting, just happen.  

Time to get ready and get a move on it.

It was another good day of knitting.  

The right front is ready to go.  I got about an inch past the short rows on the left front too.  There would have been more but I had to have a stunning realization first.

I picked up my linen swatching first thing in the morning.

I changed to a 3.75 mm needle from the 4 mm I had started with.  I hoped that would give me a nicer fabric.  It did but I really wasn't enjoying it.  I thought I'd see if crocheting was the right thing.  It wasn't.  I feel bad but I think this is going back in the bin. It simply did not feel right and life is too short for work that is not fun.  Oh well.  

I am going to work on the Geddy Tee again today.  It's is just so much fun to knit.  Then I will get to work on Veera Valimaki's  Piennar sweater.  Swatch first.  I am about 100 meters short for the amount of the main yarn, but I have plenty of the cc colour.  I think I know what I am going to do if I end up short of the main.  

First off, I'm thinking I will make the solid sections a row or two shorter.  I'm also going to use only cuffs instead of making the very short sleevelets and if needed, I will use a section of the multi colour in the bottom ribbing as well as the sleeve ribbing.  With a tiny bit of luck, doing these things will help me finish the top as close to the original look as possible.  

There is still a bit of cleaning to do and if I am really quick about that I will get to finish my current pants over in the sewing room.  If I am not quick with the cleaning, sewing will happen tomorrow.  I realized on the weekend why it feels like I am short of pants.  I have two pairs made in a sweatshirt fabric.  They are a bit warm for summer wear and I have not been reaching for them very often.  So I have pants but not seasonally adapted pants.  Still, I need pants.  And I want skirts for the ultimate summer cool.  I also want something from my red and black flannel and my rose fine whale corduroy  and so many other fabrics I have at hand.  

I have stacks of things to do so it's time to get moving.