Sweaters can be mean

Walter Koenig died the other day.  That made me sad.  Patrick Stewart died yesterday.  That makes me even sadder.  Star Trek has always been a family show for me.  I remember watching it with my brother on the basement TV when we were kids.  It was amazing.  And when my own sons were kids, Star Trek TNG was on on Fridays and that was a night we all crowded around the TV, ate our version of taco salad and were just family, hanging out.  I was a fan of both men.  We all have our time and so it goes.  Sigh.

I made it to several increase rounds on my sweater.  I put in a progress keeper and I am glad I did.  It measured 5 inches three days ago and again yesterday.  I don't want to measure it again because the darn thing will probably read 5 inches even though I did a lot of work yesterday.  Harumph.

Sweaters can be mean like that.  

I might knit on socks today.  Or maybe on my long in progress Musselburgh.  Not sure though.  I might stick with the sweater because I am starting to feel like the edging is not far away.  I am far away but in my head, I am already seeing the borders, which make a farmer sock, work sock or sock monkey sock the brilliant thing that it is.  

 

It's coming along.

Trends?

I forgot to work on my chair pad yesterday.  I thought about working two rows this morning  to compensate but no. I am not that enamored of this project.  

We are veiled in white this morning and at this moment, it looks so pretty.  Don't fall for it.  It looks like snow is here for the season.  

I spent a lot of time on Ravelry yesterday.  Pre publication info came out on Rebecca Clows new book.  All the pictures are up and Oh my.  The patterns!  I may have to buy the book even though I don't do that anymore.  It is that good.  

The other thing I noticed was scarves.  The last few years scarves that fit around your neck to fill in the coat gap were the rage.  This year, I have seen several large, wide, ultra long scarves pop up.  The kind of thing you can wrap around your head and neck several times and still have ends to tuck into hold it all in place on a windy winter day.  It might be this years scarf trend.  

I am going to keep knitting my sweaters.  There may be some sewing today too.  You never know what I might get up to.  But first, my precious lone cup of coffee.  There is always time for that.