A win

Go me go.

I have completed chair pad number 2.  ( Insert mad Grover waves here. )

I am thrilled.  Each chair pad uses 8 complete balls of Palette.  Each pad means 1688 m of yarn out of my stash.  I started these on July 26 so in just less than a month, I have used 3376 meters of yarn. Plus I have two chair pads that make life much more comfortable.

I am calling it a win.  

Not going anywhere, thank goodness

I was sitting here this morning checking on the weather for today and suddenly realized I had my pants on inside out.  I thought" Ah.  One of those mornings"

I stuck with the yellow Hiraeth sweater this weekend and I am happy with my progress.  

The pattern is not a compound yoke as I thought but simply round. I find myself worrying about fit.  

I hope it will be okay.  I really do like the way it looks.  Cheerful.  And warm and summery.  It will be a perfect winter sweater. I am crossing my fingers.

Part of my concern is that the increases are fairly severe after the colourwork.  Its so hard to trust the designer.  I will though.  Otherwise I will flounder.  

I am a wee bit glad the weekend is done.  I can work on the Kauni sweater now with a clear conscience.  It fits.  I don't have to worry about that. 

I did get a fair bit done on chair pad two as well.  I barely worked on it and yet, I have one set of stripes left till I run out of yarn.  It zoomed along in 5 minute increments here and there.  I love when that happens.  

I am going to go through the box of yarn today to set up the next chair pad.  This is exciting because I am getting close to emptying this box of yarn.  That always feels good.  

Otherwise it will be another Monday.  It's sunny out and the air smells so clean and fresh.  I feel lucky. I am going to leave my pants inside out.  It's what the world gave me this morning and who am I to question that.  Good thing I don't have to go anywhere.

The search for accurate colour representation.

Before I did anything yesterday, I did a try on of the Kauni sweater.

It's perfect.  I thought it was but it is always nice to be certain.  

I bumped up the colour saturation on this next photo so you can get a better idea of just how pretty this Kauni is.

This is much closer to life than most of the photos you have seen of this sweater.  It feels so completely me and the fit is just lovely.  

I am deciding on the hem now.  I would like to go with a split hem so I can drop the back a bit.  It works nicely to keep the chill off my lower back, no matter what fashion trends say.  I have also done some thinking about sleeves.  My accidental sleeves on my Lusk with a puffier bit at the ribbed cuff may be repeated here.  Still debating this. 

I'm going to work on my yellow sweater today I think.  I'd like to get this one to the part where I join sleeves.  I should be able to get there but you never know.  I might spend time on my beguiling neon blanket.