Boxes of Joy

It arrived!  The yarn I ordered using the gift from my lovely niece.  It is lovely.  Joyful.  Delightful.  A treat!  

  

I ordered the neon colours that Jo's Yarn Garden had in Cascade Anthem, a very nice acrylic, and one colour from Cascade's Pacific line in the neon orange.  All this will be paired with more of the Anthem in a deep Navy blue.  It's going to be a glorious blanket.  

The blanket is not a challenging one at all.  It's the Sweet Shop Blanket from Laura Penrose.  I saw it on several vlogs, most notably, the Knits from Lincolnshire vlog on youtube.  She just had so much fun knitting it.  You could see her joy with this project just shining out from her when she talked about it.   It's one of those fun, always something new projects that are just great knits.

The bright neons come from watching Jana at Finnish Knitting Stories.  She often has these wonderfully bright cheerful projects and in the dark of winter, I crave the brights.  Not necessarily  neon, but just colours.  Her soft colour choices for with the brights are lovely, but I love strong contrasts,  hence the navy.

And so my stash grows.  The whole stash brings me joy.  I feel like it is time to do a dive but I already did that since the New Year began so no dive for me.  There is knitting.  With the trouble I've been having feeling connected to a project, I was surprised to find myself here.

I'm almost at the length of the front cast off.  Since I want to have the back be a couple inches longer than the front I think I have only 4 or 5 inches to go.  Then it is only sleeves and those are always fast, right?  Right?  

Off I go.  It's sock day today.  Maybe.  The hands might stray to the Blue.  It's calling too.

I watched a bit of news today.  I don't do that much.  It usually makes me angry.    Today though, I am just filled with sorrow.  And the first question I ask myself is how did we fail this family?  How many times did we fail this young person? How much more could we have done to help the young person who did such a terrible thing.  Because of how we as a society failed that young person, so many more are lost. 

We, as a society failed and now so many innocents will bear the cost of that failure.  

Cool

I strayed from the plan.  

And it was wonderful.  

I cast on for the Hiraeth sweater by Hanna/Herbgarden Knitwear.  It's not fancy colourwork and elaborate patterns.  It's simpler looking but no less challenging and just as much fun.  

It's exactly what I needed.  The colour is the perfect mid winter knit.  This time I hope it ends in a full sweater.  I want to wear this brilliant colour this year.  

It's also the first day of testing for the F1 2026 season and I am pumped.  

I gotta go now.  Make coffee.  Watch cool stuff.  Knit cool stuff.  Cool.