I am still knitting; it’s just at a point where working on Juno Regina doesn’t show much visible progress. Forty-seven inches (the current length) just doesn’t look that different from 46 or 40.
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Knit knit knit. Rip rip rip. Knit knit knit. Rip rip rip. Knit knit knit. Ahh.
On Tuesday, I knit three different toes to get the colors to line up correctly. It’s an evening of knitting, but years of wearing. (Some of my handknit socks are ten years old now.) I still hate Spring. It seems to be the season when bad things happen to good people much too much. *** I’m trying to look at the good things, but it can be hard. There were two nice little things this week, though. One of the local farms has a competition to name its new calves. Every week there are two to four pictures and a letter of the week (the calves are named alphabetically). Caleb and I have been entering for a while, and he just got a picture of ‘Fredi’ the calf, named by him. Sadly, his earlier selection of ‘Deztini’ had not been used.
Last night, there was a pub quiz to raise money for the Special Ed department of one of the nearby school systems. ‘The Hunt for Red Octoberfest’ (a successor to the ‘James K. Polka Dots’ and ‘Judah Benjamin Franklin Pierce Brosnan’) came in second; we were just edged out by one point. I even got some of the answers to a sports question.
This past weekend, we went to Shelburne Falls to poke around. These tulips were on the Bridge of Flowers. On the way to and from, I got work done on Juno:
When the bobble in the tape measure is held flat, I have about an inch more than I did last time. Since then, I think I’ve done about another inch.
Glamor shot of the interior of the mittens.
Ravelry Link Pattern: Thrummed Mitten Yarn: Wool of the Andes Tonal in Blue Violet and Full Circle Roving in Wolf Needles: Size 8 Size: One size Amount of yarn used: 21 g of thrums remain out of the 100 g, and 18 g of the 100 g of yarn. Total of 9 g thrums and 82 g yarn. Source of Yarn: Knitpicks Thoughts: Nice mittens, but I needed to add more length than I had thought I would. Well, it snowed a little today. I guess it’s good that I didn’t completely pack away all my warm stuff. I’m finished the bodies of the mittens, and am almost finished the first thumb. I love how they get faster as you’re approaching the end. Today, I went to a homebrewing store. (Someone got a kit for the holidays.) It was amazing how much it was like a knitting store: a lot of the little toys were even packaged in the same way. The clerks were a lot like knitting store clerks with the level of interest and wanting to share the details. Cooking wort does make the whole house smell good in a different way than knitting does, though. Well, despite having to do a lot of my own driving, I managed to redo the gusset and finish the heel:
It’s beautiful here, completely unlike any other March in Massachusetts I’ve seen. I’ve started switching my summer clothes in. It’s not doing good things for my thrummed mitten and assembling the Central Park Hoodie, though. I’m not working in only one colorway now on purpose; it’s just a coincidence.
I was so excited about the In The Dark Socks this weekend. I’d finished the increases for the gusset, and so was ready to start the heel. I’d worked on our way to our weekend stroll at Mt. Tom. I looked at the pattern to check what to do for the heel and saw that I was supposed to have increased on every third row, not every second row. Oops. It’s ripped back and I’m starting the new increases at the proper rate. I guess I won’t finish the sock at the conference after all. (Edited to fix picture of sock and trees.)
I’m noting a certain color palette in my knits. I pulled out Juno Regina a while back; I’m on the very long middle section. The shawl as a whole is supposed to be 80 inches long. The fancy end is 14 inches long. I currently have 42 inches of scarf, and feel as if I’ve wandered into a math textbook. (It seems then that I have 38 inches of knitting left, of which 24 are plain. I’ve done 28 inches of plain so far, so I’m over halfway there!) I worked on this last weekend at the Big Broadcast concert, a reconstruction of a 1940s radio show, with big band songs, ads, and so on. Unfortunately, although I have a chunk of car time coming up, I have to do the driving, so I won’t be able to knit during the trip. I wish that there were better public transportation. |
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