Ooooooo

Now this is fun.

Though my photo looks Grey, the Kauni is a muted worn denim blue, purple, green, light denim blue range of colours (The colourway is EF)  

I think you can see the reason why I went with this lovely soft heathered brown for the garter stitch sections rather than the initial choice of cream.  The creamy oatmeal would look harsh against these very muted hues.

Somewhere in the next two rows the colour will morph from blue to the hazy purple.  It makes me giddy with joy.  A very simple joy.

I know I ought to be working on a sock today but I am going to stick with this.  Next week, I will go back to the Mashup and make that my weekday work and leave this treat for weekends.  That does seem to have worked in keeping my progress on several projects through the winter.  There will be sock knitting somewhere this weekend but for now I will stick with the pretty.  

I am making some raisin bread today for toast and for French toast.  I have no idea where the idea came from but as I was setting puzzles yesterday, it became a need.  It looks like a day with lots to do, all of it fun.  

Joy

After posting yesterday, I did a good dig in my WIPs bin and I checked on all the projects I had planned to knit this winter.  It seems I have almost run out of winter.  It's time to think summer.  That means there needs to be a stash dive and before that happens, I need to do a good spring clean in my room.  There will be lots to do the next bit. 

Meanwhile I did dig out my Mashup top.  

One side of the front/back body is complete.  The other is about 2/3 complete.  I made a bit of progress yesterday.  It's nice easy knitting,  all garter stitch.  At the moment there is no counting.  It's just straight back and forth.  It gets a bit counted later but only so I can match the side that is already complete. 

I did that for a while.  It was lovely.  I sat surrounded by all the bags of my projects that are bagged and ready to go.  I had a good look at all of them again.  I can't wait to knit these yarns.  Surrounded by my dreams is a happy place.

And then I caved.  

I grabbed one of the projects that would be perfect to wear in this season of some days winter, some days spring.  I started working on my sweater dream I played with on the cowl last fall.  

 The original inspiration for this comes from a garment I saw on Pintrest of all things, and I do have a similar one marked on my Favourites on Ravelry.  All of the sweaters like this that I have seen seem to have used the Margot from Knitty Fall 2009 as a base pattern.  I don't like Margots neckline.  Boatnecks are not my thing.  I am going to use the trusty numbers from Ann Budd's Top Down Sweaters as the start of mine.  

I am using some of my much loved Tove stash and some of my Kauni.  These are both sticky type yarns, mildly rustic.  Toothy is the word I am looking for. I think they will work wonderfully together.  

It was late in the day when I started and you know how that goes.  

 Sometimes, you should wait till morning.  I made a stupid choice and pulled from the center of the skein.  Dumb dumb dumb.  Sticky toothy type yarns don't really like to be pulled from center pull balls.  They much prefer to be used from the outside.  I spent a very good part of my evening sorting the yarn barf.  It doesn't look like much here but I had created a real mess.  

All is good now.  I can get down to some serious knitting today and maybe I can make it to using the Kauni.  I can't wait.  I adore Kauni.  

Complete

And here it is.

I am sorry it is not displayed better but I love it.  It took me most of the day to get the ribbing done on the bottom.  I ended up knitting the ribbing three rows longer than I did at first.  The best way to defeat flipping is to go longer.  That worked and it looks great.  

Today I am going to dig the WIPs bin to find my Mashup Top and make some progress on that.