Onward.

And here it is.  The last day of 2025. Where did the time go?  

Well according to the blog, into a lot of projects.  Most completed and some not, but all sounded like good interesting knitting.  

According to Ravelry, nine sweaters and vests.  That's a pretty good number really.  I am content with that.  What there wasn't was small projects.  I completed only three pairs of socks and one other small project, my pretty cowl.  

I am a little disappointed in the sock production.  I had hoped for more.  I really could use the socks.  And, I had a vague plan in my head to knit more hats and possibly make one for each of my dearest grandchildren, big and little.  I have seven so that should have been doable.  Only I did not do it.  In order to knit hats and socks, you need to actually spend time working on hats and socks.  

What I am really proud of is the process I adopted to stop myself feeling bogged down by knitting on a single sweater, and tossing aside for months to knit on anything else.  I started setting a project to be knit on during the week and then knitting on something else on the weekends.  It was a breath of fresh air for my knitting MOJO and it really helped to keep my head and spirits happy with my world.  It was a sort of hard year for that even though I am pretty pleased with life in general.  

My WIPs bin was overflowing before I did this process.  It has been a very long time since I could come close to fitting all the projects in the bin and close the lid.  This year, there are only two projects that couldn't fit in the bin and the bin was easy to close for a change.   

That process might adapted to resolve my small project slump.  I think for 2026, I am going to gift myself one day a week, at least to work on small projects.  The other day can be knitting on anything like it was in 25.  Or maybe it should be that Friday's will be devoted to small projects.  Hmm, something to think about.  

I had hoped to get more of the really old projects completed.  I did not do that at all. Maybe this year.  

What I will do this year is keep trying to work on in the bin projects interspersed with new things.  There is a very pretty shawl, the Bridgewater shawl, that was started in 2012.  It had a lace incident and the reknit lace edging is about half done.  It needs so little work and I would love to see it completed.  My hands do shake a bit too much to work on it some days.  That fine lace can be difficult.  BUT.  But. I am going to finish it.

There is another project I want to turn into a sweater.  I had started knitting on a Starting Point shawl, and I love the combination of colours and yarns.  I want to keep the yarns together and I have a plan to turn it into a very pretty top like an old fashioned scrappy quilt top.  It will mean intarsia knitting but that's okay.  I don't mind seams.   I just don't see the need on most garments.  There us also some stunning yarn from Arcane Fibre Works to be knit into a sweater that is also going to be done using the intarsia technique.  

First thing in the new Year, I mean to knit on my current colourvwork projects.  I want to use and wear both enough that I am going to focus on them early in the New Year.  I am also craving a BIG DIG in the stash.  I have been craving a good deep dig for a few weeks now and knew I had to hold it off till after Christmas.  Indeed, I have to hold it off till after this weekend because I have New Years company coming.  

I am looking forward to 2026 and making all the good things that are busy taking space in my head.  I am looking forward to playing with my kiddies and young women and young men who I am so happy to have in my life.  I am looking for full hearts and good things for all of us and for you too.  

And that is enough chatter frome me for 2025.  Onward 2026.  

And done

Just popping in to say, socks done!

Socks First

Socks and a ton of baking done.  It was a winner of a day.

Socks first.  

A pair of utterly random socks.  I did a count of rows and only had two rows to go by count.  It needed more than that for length.  I took a closer look at both and found I did a couple more green rows at the toe on one than the other.  It.  Does.  Not.  Matter.  It was a fun way to knit socks.  

Heels to go but you may have to wait to see them.  I am going to call it vacation so I will see you all after the holidays.  May you and yours have a wonderful time together and I will see you all around New Years.

Very Interesting

I think I am at the point where I should count rows.

There are 5 rows of orange to do (I'm on round 3)  and then, may be ready for the last colour before the ribbing.  It all depends on random.  I hope to be ready for heels today.

I watched the loveliest of programs on YouTube yesterday.  It was the Great Big Tiny Design Challenge on the Luxury Living channel.  It was a competition show in the same way the Baking shows are a competition.  What a wonderful Christmasy thing to watch even though the Christmas episode was not part of the whole series program that I watched.  I caught that episode a few days earlier.  It was charming and I highly recommend it for seasonal viewing.

I am going to post till these socks are done and then I am going to take a bit of an extended vacation.  I should return at New Years or just after, depending on how it takes me.  Today is a bit more baking, knitting and blanketing or possibly tree setting.  Not sure what I feel more like doing.  

Great Day

A good amount of knitting and a great amount of everything else.  It was a great day.

I had a 2 row black section and now a longer green section.  I am feeling really good about getting the socks done during Advent.  

I got a huge chunk of work done on Amy's blanket and am ready to do the final sewing down of the top to the new innards and bottom.  

I baked butter tarts and pecan pie tarts for the first time in my life.  I now know the difference between the two!  And I have to say that Keith is very enamoured of the pecan pie tarts even if they were very slightly overbaked.  (Only about 5 minutes worth)  He thinks they are perfect.  

There was watching of Christmas themed things but there was no listening to Christmas music.  Instead, I had to direct Keith shopping for a birthday gift.  My smallest grandson Everrett has a birthday on December 26 and I have been so concerned about Christmas things that I forgot to order his birthday present.  It's too late now to be sure of getting it before Christmas, so Keith made a trip to Walmart for me.  He took video while I shopped at a distance.  

Today's plan is more knitting, more baking, more blanketing and stuff.  I should get to Christmas music and hot chocolate today.  May even listen to a new book.  Might even be laundry!  

Oh well.  Can't have everything.

Christmas Cheer Feelings

While the weekend wasn't particularly knitty, it was hugely successful.

I am really pleased with my progress.  And I didn't even spend much time knitting.  

This weekend was all about baking.  I made our family's favourite treat, poppyseed rolls.  They usually take what feels like decades to make but this year, I made some changes to the rolling of the dough process and the filling process, it took only two hours.  It was amazing. 

Today, it will be about tarts, blanket working (yes, that is still going on in the background), and sock knitting.  A great day will be had by all.  Okay, that means me, but that's alright.  The Christmas music is on.  The fireplace is playing on TV and I am feeling more seasonally in tune than I have for several years.  The day is feeling full of joy and cheer and I can't wait to be doing.

Wow

Look at this.

Yellow in the foot.  Whodda thunk it?

I wanted to mention cowls.  Last year when I knit a sweater using Siler Thaw, an old Noro yarn, I ended up with one entire ball left. My goal was to use up all the yarn.  I decided to knit a simple cowl just to get that lovely yarn out of my stash.  

BEST THING EVER.  I wear it all the time with the matching sweater and it is like having a turtleneck without having a turtleneck all the time.  

I encourage everyone to do this.  And to wear them.  It's fiercely cold out there today.  -32 C when I got up today.  It is definitely a cowl wearing sort of day.  If not a cowl, put on a lacy shawl and wrap it around your neck a few times.  Even the thinnest, finest layers of wool chases away the chill.  

It's a day to pull out the wool and layer up.  Bake today.  The warmth of your oven  will add to your seasonal cheer.  

Sock 2

Sock two and it was 10 days in.  Not as fast as Mijn Wolden on her youtube channel, where in Socktober, she knit 8 random socks.  My one sock this month is not so epic but I am good with it.

The first roll was orange.  I laughed because the first roll on sock one after the toe was also orange.  Such is random.  

I have a problem.  It's not a bad problem and it is one I have known would come.  My sweater chest is overflowing.  I have been stuffing sweaters in for many moons but the last 6 months have been chaos.  I routinely have sweaters bags on the floor or my bed or in a wash basket.  I have always known that there would be a point where my need for sweater storage would take over from my need for stash storage.  That is not quite what has happened because sweaters do wear and you get tired of them but even though they are carefully curated, they no longer all fit in my sweater chest.  

In part, it is because of the mid season sweaters.  There are more of them now that are great for cold summer days and spring and fall but they are not what I wear in winter.  They still take up room. It is almost that I have a wardrobe for warm and a winter wardrobe.  

I have finally decided to bring in a bin from the shed.  I am not certain if these interseasonal garments will be in the bin or if my inspiration cabinet will emptied and be put to sweater storage.   I do have room in the yarn closet.  The stash is shrinking as I work and is considerably smaller now than when I moved here. 

It's a great problem to have and I am lucky to have it.  I lost a lot along the way to get to this point, and I am glad that at least I have the stupidly large stash to keep company with.    So on to socks.  It will be a good day.

  

There is light

It is always darkest before the dawn they say.  Though just who 'they' are is yet to be seen.  That's how this sock is making me feel.  But today is the dawn and there is light.

Sock one is done.  I decided that heels cuffs and toes ought to match because otherwise I won't recognize them as a pair as I sort laundry.  Sock two gets started today.  It too will have a green toe, heel and cuff.  

Does this break my random thing?  No.  Because I say so and because the green was picked randomly when I started. It should also be noted that I did not let random go too far. If a colour came up twice in a row, I rolled again.  I guess these were my only two random rules. 

So here is to Sock two and slow knitting.  

***Check out Cecilia Blomdahl's YouTube video today.  I love watching how they celebrate the season all around the world!

Inconceivable

Can I be honest?  I am just the teensiest bit bored with this sock.  Not with the way I am knitting these socks, random dice as it is but that it is taking so long.  It's a good thing I am doing an afterthought heel or this pair would be very short. 

I'm looking forward to a heavier pair of socks on bigger needles.  This is all so inconceivable to me.

A weekend!

It was a very light knitting weekend.  My brain was filled with the final weekend of the season of F1 Racing.  I really enjoyed it but my knitting gauge changes when I feel tense.  Knitting was best paused.  

Outside of racing,  my weekend was sorting out the things I have for miniature making.  Tools and supplies and ready to go pieces were mashed unsorted, in several boxes and with Cassie and I stirring the pot, disaster was at hand.  It was tidy and sort or the mini things were going to take over the world.  It took one good afternoon.  

Then with my part in Cassies project more or less over, I worked on the recycle corner and readied it for recycle day.  Side bar:  never ever clear out your recycle corner before you do miniatures.  Many many things for minis can be made from those materials.  Cardboard, some tins cans, those things that pastries come in, empty vitamin bottles, plastic dairy containers and so on. I took time to mash the various cardboards into a single big box and sorted a big bag of tins, plastics, and the rest of the recyclable materials.  

I also cooked this weekend. I don't do it often since I fear burning myself yet again, or spilling boiling water on myself. I do soups and oven casseroles when I can, and this weekend, made a nice big dish of ham and scalloped potatoes.  That fed us all weekend and it was lovely.  Keith is working a lot at the moment, and is pretty tired when he gets home so it was nice to give him a weekend off.  

The knitting I did do was this.

I had a few short colour rounds and it seems this socks random wants the top to have a good dose of yellow and orange.  

The sock will continue today, and I do hope to getting to a sweater again.  At the same time, I have a weird desire to work on a blanket.  It has come because this does seem to be the season of blankets.  I do have a couple of blankets happening, all of which need much more work, but I would like to deal with my other Wips just a bit more before I get to those.  Till then socks, because I need those.

Random

And there it is.

Yellow!

And next up is a second yellow for 11 rows.

And that is how random works.

Of socks and blankets

I spent the afternoon yesterday working on Amy's blanket.  It was interesting.  You know how they get to the point where the inside batting lets go and clumps up.  That is where this blanket was.  I opened one side to take that out.  It was attached on 2 places and I had to leave some batting attached so that the outer fabric stayed whole. The stuffing is free and out of the bag so to speak. 

Today I have to get the new inside ready.  I got a polyester duvet to go back inside and oddly enough, it is slightly larger than this vintage blanket.  I have to cut off a few inches from one side and about 10 inches from the other.  In some ways, this is going to be the most challenging part of this project.  

In knitting, I had some fun, but still no yellow.

I was kind of hoping for some yellow, but randomness does not yet include yellow.  Yet.  It is entirely possible that the next sock could be all yellow.  There is also a starling sameness to the number of rows.  There are only 2 thin stripes with most being between 7 and 12 rows.  

It a weird sort of fun but fun all the same.  There will be more socks and blanket work today.  Time to get some tea and get moving with the day.

Letting go

I was starting to worry that 4 of my colours were just going to repeat and that the last two were not going to make it in.  True randomness let's this happen.  

It's a bit hard to see but I am working with my darkest yarn, Gentry Grey in Kroy.  The colour it is next to is the dark green.  This is the smallest contrast of all the yarns.  The only colour that has not made it into the sock is yellow.  

I am really enjoying knitting this way.  It is a bit challenging to let go and just let things happen but it's a good time of year to to practice accepting what ever comes.  

Have a great knitting day.  I plan to.

The Adventure Begins

Advent socks are begun!

I picked my yarns 

and am aware of some 'holes' in my sock yarn collection.  I could have used a purple or a royal blue to replace the dark grey black and I wish my green had been a brighter teal.  I did think about using a multi colour but my multis in those colours are striping multis and that just didn't feel right.  These are all commercial yarns so that I can wash and dry my socks in machines.  If I was using hand dyed yarns there would be so many more options but that defeats the dryer drying.  These yarns may not be spectacular but I already have them, and they are all good quality yarns.

Since I couldn't  find a regular dice, and since Keith was at work and couldn't give me his 12 sided dice, I used a random number generator to begin.  I numbered my colours, from 1 to 6, yellow, green, turquoise, red, black, orange.  First roll of the dice said 2, so toe number 1 is green.  I meant to only do the toe, but it felt kind of fun.  Roll 2 gave me 6 and 7, so orange, yarn 6,  for 7 rows.  I still felt like knitting so on to another roll. That gave me 4 and 9 so red for 9 rows.  

And so on.  You should try this.  It's a fun way to approach knitting a pair of socks.  I am going to keep good track on my Ravelry page as the rows and numbers grow and change.  

I am knitting for a bit this morning and then I will get to work on my other advent project.  So many things to do.  I love Christmas.

 

Advent Adventures

This morning, to accompany my tea, I am digging in yarn.  I can't think of anything more delightful than this except possibly for knitting.  

I am planning to do some advent knitting to make some socks.  Mijn Wolden did some chaos socks for Socktober where she shook a dice to choose the colour of yarn and then shook again to choose the number of rows to knit in that colour.  It was fun to watch so I thought I would do that for my Advent socks. 

And that is why I am digging in the sock yarn today.  

This is my entire sock yarn stash  except for this.

This is what I kept close at hand in case I needed to knit socks and didn't want to dig for some.

I am a wee bit picky about socks.  I love strong contrast and have a very clear idea of colours as I like them to be put together.  YMMV.  It is a thing that I think is pretty individual to each of us, so your way of putting colours together may be quite different to mine.  The idea of using a dice to make the choices for me, is the tiniest bit scary.  Still, I learned a lot about colours as I knit the Flea sweater this year. Letting go can be fun.  

Step one is to pick 6 yarns. Or maybe it should be 6 pairs of yarns.  If I do pairs, there should be a strong contrast between the two yarns.  If I do 6 single skeins, there should be good contrast between all of them.  Then I have to number the yarns or pairs of yarns from one to six for a regular dice.

Next, I have to talk to Keith.  He has a bunch of dice, the fancy gaming kind.   I am going to use a 12 sided dice for my row counting dice.  

And then I have to knit.  Today the goal is two garter toe squares.  

I do have another advent goal.  Amy gave me a blanket to fix in the spring and December is the time to focus on it so I can give it back to her at Christmas.  Knitting for me may take a back seat for a bit except for the sock knitting.  So it goes.

Back to sweaters

Well, here we are.  Another day, more yarn! Ain't it grand?!!!

I knit a very little bit on socks.  It seems my hands have decided that it's enough of that for right now.  I worked on a sweater off and on for most of the day.

I am making good progress and I really can't wait to see this sweater complete.  It's nice and loose with plenty of space for this coned yarn to bloom once the spinning oils are washed out.  

That's it for today.  On to my day and knitting , knitting, knitting!

Ps  Every time I pick up yarn, I think how lucky I am to knit.  I have plenty of yarns to choose from, I have needles at hand and it is just the nicest thing.  I clothe myself in handmade and I feel huge satisfaction that I am able to do that.

Socks and Ends

Socks happened!

I am wearing them right now and they are great.  The few gusset stitches make a nice difference.  I am not sure why I didn't do this before on short row heel socks.  It really does make them easier to get on.  

I pulled out these when the first were done.

This is the next pair I am going to focus on.  Plain Kroy socks made out of the yarn as it comes off the ball.  I haven't done that for a while.  Also, note the change of toes.  I actually regret this now, but I am not going to rip back for a toe.  I am almost at the heel now and am debating a short row heel versus a heel flap, bottom up.  

Beyond all that, I am weaving in ends on my Lusk.  All the body ends are done so there is only one sleeve and a few neck ends to go.  I am determined to wear that sweater today.  

So on to tea.  Sigh.  Coffee oh coffee, why, why, why?   The tea is nice though and sipping is a fine thing when you are working with yarn.

And done.  

Lots of knitting

You may have noticed yesterday that I mentioned having tea.  It is not that I don't like tea.  It's just that I love coffee.  However the powers that be, aka, the debil, say I have to have tea.  I won't get over this fast.  

I did a good bit of knitting yesterday and am pretty pleased. I tried to knit sweaters, just could not get into them.  I pulled out socks and that seems to have worked. I was midway on the sole of sock two when I started.

I have 5 or 6 rows to do in the multi coloured Fiesta.  I am really glad that I stopped it when I did on sock one.  There is not going to be much left when I go to the green.  I am currently debating how much of the green I want to use up.  As in, do I want to make the cuff longer on sock one and work on sock two till the green is gone.  

The one thing stopping me from doing that is it means just a bit longer till I have a pair of completed socks.  Maybe that's what I am feeling.  That I just wanted to have a completed thing.  I am still working on weaving in ends on my Lusk sweater so it is not wearable but the socks?  The socks would be wearable right after finishing.  I routinely weave ends in on socks as I work, so, look, ma.  No danglers.  

Time for tea, I suppose.  It's very weak plain English breakfast tea at the moment.  And so it goes.  Tea goes well with knitting and I am going to keep telling myself that.  And knitting.  Lots and lots of knitting.

Good Morning

Good morning.  Maybe.  That is a conversation we have here most morning, but it is generally a jest because most mornings are pretty darn good.  Even when it is not a jest, talking about it, goofing around with it makes a grumpy morning feels better.

I did get some knitting time in this weekend but I may have used it foolishly.  I did not do huge amounts of work even though I had the time.  

A bit of progress but not much.

A bit of progress but not much.

I should have been working on socks.  My sock drawer seems to be filled with shortie socks and it is winter now.  I need regular socks.  Sometime very soon I am going to have to seriously focus on sock knitting.

I do have a plan for advent knitting this year.  I did that a few years ago and got a delightful pair of striped socks that remain a personal favourite sock.  This year, I am thinking of doing something similar to what Mjin Wolden did for Socktober.  If you watch her on YouTube you will already know what she did, and for the rest of you, you will have to wait for a surprise.  Her friend Etienne, also a youtuber, did the same thing with a twist.  

Anyway, time to get knitting to make some progress on something or other.  Tea time for now.  Coffee later when I can appreciate it more.  

Danglers of the World

Keith calls them ' danglers'

It's a lot of ends.  I will work on that this morning.  This is all that is stopping me from wearing this sweater.  It is the closest to pattern thing I have ever knit and it fits really nicely.  The yarns also feel really nice to wear.  

I also might redo for the third time, the bind off on one of the sleeves.  I have no idea why but it is tight.  

Once the knitting was done on this sweater, I pulled out my blue sweater.  

I debated about doing the London Fog sweater but this sweater is a bit harder to knit.  The yarn, in its weaving yarn state, is crisper in hand.  The  whole point of this sweater is going to be the wearing of it.  It is a product sort of knit rather than being a process knit.  All in all, less fun to work on.  The yarn has been in my stash almost forever.  The London Fog has been around a good while too but the younger yarn will give way to the elder.  

The London Fog is in the running for my weekend knitting but so are some of my longer standing projects.  There are socks to be knit and a hat that could be worked on as well as some colourwork I could work on.  In truth, there may not be too much time to knit. Cassie is coming over to play.  There will be miniature work being done.  That's all good fun but maybe, in hidden corners of time, I will sneak in some time to knit.

In the land of Almost

I am still in the land of almost.  

I have about 6 rows left, unless I decide on a folded collar.  I may yet do that.  My thinking is that a folded collar might be a bit less floppy over time.  

The sleeves are both complete and I am thrilled to say, they match!  It's possible that no one but myself, finds that such a thrill, but there is always a chance that my tension may have changed, that I miscounted something ot other.  It is particularly thrilling when I am finishing the sleeve with a new sort of sleeve treatment.

That slight puff before the cuff is something I never thought I would do.  It is there because my rate of decreases were wrong and I had far too many stitches left by the time my sleeves needed to finish.  The slightly dropped sleeves muddled my sleeve length calculation.  I just plain messed up.  Still the sleeves look okay and they will do.  And I will continue celebrating that they match.

Darn Things

Almost  finished a sleeve yesterday.  So close.  

There is one decrease row plus a few other rows before the cuff to finish.  Today it will be done.  

This is where I really, really wish I had woven in my ends as I went along.  With the stripes, there are a lot of ends.  It was really quite ridiculous that I did not weave in ends.  I am sure there was a reason.  I don't recall what it was though, so... I will quietly sit and weave the darn things in.  

Harumphhhhhh

Sleeve Island

I set down to work on sleeves yesterday and I did.  I should get close to finishing today.  I hope.  

It doesn't look like much.  It really isn't much.  I let my hands do the leading and I stopped about midday.  

My head really needed to keep knitting.  I thought I might knit to the end of the ribbing on the London Fog Tolsta.  I meant it too.  I want to keep my hands healthy and strong.

And then it went on to a bit more.  I decided to do to the end of the short rows.  And then a few more rows happened.

I think sometimes tired hands are in my head.

Obviously, I am kind of bored with sleeves.  It feels as if it has been an ocean of sleeves lately.  Not an ocean but maybe sleeve island.  Cassie's sleeves and this sweaters sleeves so close together have become a 'thing' in my head.  To defeat that feeling of being overwhelmed by sleeves, I am focusing on the evidence.  

Sleeve 1 has three blue stripes.  On sleeve 2, I have already completed two blue stripes.  I am on the third white stripe so there is only 1 more full white stripe left.  And a cuff.

It is only a small bit of knitting and I will have a completed sweater.  That's pretty great isn't it?  I am going to keep focused on that almost finished sweater.  I don't shop for my clothes.  I make them so getting something new is fun.  

Looking at what is on my needles and how little remains to do will get me through.

Dealing with Anxiety in my own way.

It is always so quiet when the kids go home but it is clear that I can't really do that anymore.  I love it but even though they are growing so fast, and only need the smallest bit of monitoring, I get so tired.  Ah well.  Cassie's art project is a lot of fun and she will come back next weekend to do some more as well as her time in class.  I can't wait to see what she creates.

I had some good knitting time on Sunday.  

I love how this sweater is turning out.  It is everything I hoped it would be.  The stripes keep it moving as stripes always do.  It is so near completion that I am just bursting, waiting to wear this.  

At the same time, I found myself slightly...bored.  I needed something but I did not know what.  It was anxiety inducing.  I felt skittery and antsy and jumpy.  

I dug through all the yarns in the WIPs bin and went through the stuff beside it.  I did not feel like socks or a hat and yet I had an itch I really needed to scratch.  

I came to the bag with the London Fog yarn that has been two sweaters already.  My hands kept going to it because it is so lovely to knit with.  In the blink of an eye, 

A sweater is begun.  Just a simple Tolsta this time.  It will show off the gorgeous yarn.  And then somehow, I could settle down to rest.

Reasons

There are kids here though I should probably nor call Cassie a kid anymore.  She has crossed the line to teenager.  We are doing this.

The start of furniture.

Floors going in the room.  I am helping Her with a project for art class.  

I am doing very little of the work as it should be but I have all the things.

There was a reason I collected all this stuff.

Do and redo.

I have been struggling this year with time change.  I have woken all week at 3 and 4 o'clock and been wide awake and ready to start the day.  It has been frustrating.  I was watching a QI clip yesterday where they happened to discuss setting an internal alarm to wake at a certain time.  I have done this all my life as I needed to or wanted to and was always surprised at how well it works for me.  I thought "hey, I should try that ".  So, I told myself that I needed to get up and 5:30 and no later.  You know what?  It worked.  I woke at 5:30 and not before! I am doing it again tonight.  

It was an interesting day yesterday.  Knitting went good and not so good.  I sorted out how I was going to have to deal with the sleeve.  I decreased severely on the last couple rows of the white stripe.  The plan was to knit a ribbed cuff so I did that.  And then...

 I took it off.  I had forgotten to change needle sizes and it was looking loose and floppy.  On a loose and floppy sleeve this is not a good look.  

I reknit it on a much smaller needle.  

 

The result?  A very very nice slightly belled sleeve.  Sleeve 2 starts today.

On a weekend

My lovely Cassie came for a visit and took her sweater home.

I am really pleased and so is she.  Once she washes the sweater, it's going to look even better.  

Otherwise it was a really quiet weekend.  I was pondering my Lusk sweater and have a small problem.  I planned to finish the sleeve with a white rib.  However, due to the length of my arms, it is going to have to be a blue rib.  Even with the blue rib, it will probably be a bit long in the sleeve for my taste.  Oh well, that's the way it is I suppose.  I will get over it.  

While thinking, I pulled out a sock to knit on.  

This is Drops Fiesta and all I can tell you is I LOVE THIS YARN.  I hope it washes like Fabel and if it does, it is going go get a big 100 percent yes from me.  I have tons of sock yarns at hand to knit, before I can order large amounts of this good yarn.

Otherwise today is chores and knitting and coffee.  Not a bad way to spend a day.  

Here There and Everywhere

Cassie's sweater is done but for weaving in the ends.  

I am really pleased with it.  It is basically an out of gauge Lusk sweater with sleeves akin to the Cloud sweater and Cloud edge finishes.  It works and I am looking forward to seeing it on her.  

In the afternoon I picked up the sweater I put down to make Cassie's sweater, my own version of Lusk.  

It is midway through sleeve one.  It is a proper full Lusk sleeve with the patterns sleeve top shaping.  I managed about a stripe and a half so I hope for good progress today.  

I am not certain if this Lusk is going to be my weekend knitting or if I will pick up something else.  

I should report one firm decision for my blue sweater.  

It is firmly a Tolsta but I am absolutely going to put the little pockets in it from the  Mayhemma sweater.  I have decided on a purple, a bright yellow and a nice clear red.

A teeny tiny touch of these colours will be just the thing to set this umpteenth Tolsta sweater apart.  

There ought to be music

There ought to be music, a triumphal score of some kind.

I am so happy.  I am so happy to be done with sleeves.  I am so happy with the way it looks.  I am so happy that all that is left is the collar.  A very wee bit of the collar.  Four rows and the bind off. It was a great knitting day.

Cassie is really thrilled too.  She texted me yesterday and she has an art project to do.  She has to create a miniature room.  She asked for help and I am thrilled.  I am looking forward to a good weekend.  

In other news, 

It's here.  I have sweaters.  I have cocoa and coffee and tea.  It's warm and cozy here.  What more can I really need.