Didn’t get that much knitting done. Was so tired and exhausted that I went to bed early. Or rather I fell asleep on the couch and later woke up and moved into bed at 3am. And was too groggy to think about turning lights, ac, and etc off. So much for resolving to stop wasting power and cut down the elec bill a bit.
But I did cast on and get the k2/p2 ribbing done for 12 rows as required for the bottom of the Sweater Bag! I’m excited even though I’m not as thrilled at the color of this yarn as I’d like to be. The rest of my impulse Ebay buys were better than this so all in all I didn’t do badly at all!
I’m still excited about the skein of 100% silk in a beautiful blue color that I want to make in a Tudora for Aunt Ann. I could probably cast on and finish it if I devoted one of the weekend days to it. After all I did the other one in about 5 hours of knitting on the first Saturday from cast on to cast off.
Another thing I’m excited about is that I think I’ve figured out what to do with my stash of Lion Brand Chenille. I’ve got a lot of black and a lot of the multi color “print” colorways which are named for cities. London & Paris which are both very purply & blue and then Amsterdam which has both but leans more towards teal for an deep ocean kind of tone. I knew I wanted to make a blanket with it but was having trouble deciding on a pattern. Was thinking something that would evoke the ocean but hadn’t seen a good pattern or had any inspirational visions of a pattern I could design myself.
But then I was crusing the Afghan event thread in the Ravelympics group and saw people talking about the Cathedral Rose Throw. PERFECT!! I have a lot more Amsterdam than London & Paris but can use the latter two for the smaller accents. Some finished ones: one gal did two, picture of the original FO, a version in browns & reds, and I’m sure you can find more via google as I did.
Really need to come up with a good method for keeping track of what projects that I’ve got planned where I’ve got the yarn and pattern (and needles) ready for casting on. Instead of it all being cattywumpus over my apt and brain and I end up forgetting the plans and wind up wondering what was I going to do with this yarn?