One thing at a time

I don’t blog about my knitting and crocheting nearly as much as I’d like to which means I don’t really have a clear journal of my progress or way to later gauge how much time was spent on things etc.

Keep feeling like I have to blog about it all.

So tonight, will just talk about what I did today.

First, I worked on my Sunflowers Afghan. There’s 4 colors involved in a motif (the section that is repeated over and over and then sewn together to make the whole afghan). Dk brown for the center (seeds), yellow for the leaves, then a round of green, a round of dk blue, and another round of green. So far I’ve done only up to the blue round as I still need to dig out that skein of blue that I have.

I’m undecided whether to stick with the color scheme as indicated in the book or go all green. Will do one of each and take pictures.

In the meantime, been doing more motifs because with the yarn changes, it’s very easy to just assembly line it. Today I managed to use up the rest of the dk brown skein which shows me I can get 10.5 motifs out of a dk brown skein. Will be useful for figuring how many more to set aside when I figure out how big I want to make it.

Been thinking these might make fun baby blankets too. Keep the motifs the same size but just put fewer together and do it in a softer yarn. Certainly a lot of babies in my life, my cousins have a bunch and other people do too.

Then I decided it was time to see what the love for the clapotis was all about. It’s one of the two KALs this month in Village Hopelessly Overcommitted, and Kimberli helped me out by looking at my stash and recommending Elann’s Pegasus, which is a nice cotton/rayon yarn. Has a nice feel to it. And I had a bag of an intense blue color which should be enough for it plus a skein or two left over for fingerless mitts to match.

Using K’s adapted spreadsheet that is written to purl the stitch to be dropped instead of using a ton of stitch markers. So far so good. Still in section 2, working up the increases.

Good mindless knitting but I still have to pay attention to remember to twist the appropriate stitches.

EDIT:  Finished the first skein and got to 89 stitches which is the end of the 6th repeat. 1.5 left to go in Section 2 and then it’s straight knitting for a while. So just need to make sure I have 1.2 skeins left for the decreasing end.

Liking this so far, fast knit and fast gratification to see something coming out of the needles