Just Different

It was a great weekend.  I made my raisin bread and have been enjoying raisin toast with peanut butter or cheese.  And Keith made some peanut butter French toast.  Yummy.  Plus it was the Japanese Grand Prix.  What a great race.  

And knitting.  Oh my.  Wonderful doesn't begin to describe it.  

That brown you see is actually purple and I utterly love how it looks.  There is an intensity and a depth to the colours that don't show up in pictures.  What you can see is Kaunis very gentle change to green which is the next colour in the skein.  It fades so delicately.  Sigh.  I love Kauni and I am glad I have a good stash of it.  

It's also lyrical knitting.  It changes before you ever get tired of the colour or the stitch.  Now you may think all that garter stitch must be tough but not if you do it the way I do.  I wrap my purls the wrong way and the result is that knit rows are knit through the leading leg of the stitch, the back leg, and the purls are my normal purl which is easy and flows just like a knit stitch.  When I started knitting everyone told me I was doing it wrong.  I learned how most of you do it and now, when I knit, I knit to get what I want in the most comfortable efficient way.  There are places and times when my way is better and y'all are doing it wrong.

In knitting, if you get the product you want, and if you are enjoying your knitting, you are NEVER knitting wrong.  Hold that to your heart.  If you understand what everyone else does, and you can do that and you find a better way to get there in your own inimitable style, you win in every way.  

When someone says you are doing it wrong, just smile and tell them it's not wrong. Its just different.

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.