Repairs

Having decided that I was giving myself a day off from my cotton top, I faced up to sorting out my MashUp top. Here is where I was when I caught the error.  Okay.  Not quite true.  After after my first attempt at fixing it.  

Utter fail.  

I have no problems with repairs unless it is garter stitch.  I understand what to do and on rare occasions repair it first try, but generally, I mess something up.  SO this time I wanted to unravel a few more stitches and then to flip the sweater just as I would when knitting.  

It looks like a bit of a blip where the earlier repair was, but all is right and will be sorted out once it is blocked.  

That was enough for the day.  I have no idea why, but I was mentally fried after the job was done.  I think I build it up to being a much bigger deal than it was.  

I prepared what I needed for today's soup (pea soup), I made some rice Kristie squares for a quick treat and that was the sum total of my day.  Besides the usual laundry and dishes (The bane of my existence) of course.

It's back to work on my cotton top today.  Back to work.  Back to stripey joy.  And supposedly back to another day of expected snow.  Oh well. You take what you get and there it is. 

** I just realized how different the colours in the photos are!  The first is the truer colour.

Still going

I woke this morning and had no idea what day it was, Monday or Tuesday.  I was pretty certain that it wasn't a weekend day but... It took a while till the world righted itself but right itself it did.  Monday, Monday.

I had a good weekend knitting.  Not great but good.  I knit as much as I could on my Tshirt.  

Joined below the arms!  

I love working on this.  Two rows is so liberating and creative somehow.  I've not done two rows that often if at all for a sweater so it's nice to know that I like it.  My next plan for  Kauni sweater is two rows.  Two colourways.

Sadly, it's cotton and even though I am loving it, I can't knit too long on it without my hands feeling it.  I quit when I feel it.  In fact, today is going to be a no knitting it day.

I alternated knitting the top this weekend, with this.  

I only have the cuff left!  It feels like this is going fast.  Fast but there is a wee problem.  See that stitch marker?  I dropped a stitch on one of the short rows.  I probably ought to have gone back and redone it but you know me.  I can live with it, right?  Right.  I really can.  I will stabilize it when I am weaving in ends.  

The snow here is looking rotten.  It will all be gone soon.  The sun has too much power to be defeated now.  However...it is going to be stormy and snowy and rather miserable over the next few days.  It is the way of springtime in Canada.  

Stripes

It's Friday again and I ought to work on socks but I think I will go with my current obsession.

It's coming along and I am really looking forward to having this done.  It's just going to be nice.  Simple basic and good.

I love stripes.  I really do.  It's such a small thing but till you do it you don't quite understand it.  It focuses you on what's next.  You are always looking forward.  Even though logic tells you that you are working at your usual pace, it feels fast.  

All the mushy ice has gone, melted off by the power of the sun.  Yes there still is a 3 foot bank 9f snow on the lawn but it's looking old and shriveled.  It has a layer of the last snow on it but you can see that the covering is on old bones.  Spring is coming no matter what snow says.