The school year has ended and I feel like I can cut back a little on my high caffeine consumption. Just a little mind you. After all, my day does not truly start without coffee. OK, so I go and work out before coffee, but that’s only because I don’t have to string words together into a sentence at the Y. And if I am not stringing words together, I’m not really awake yet.
So, what have I been knitting in this highly caffeinated state? Well, a little of this….
It’s a Foolproof Cowl out of Knitting My Way Home handspun for a class at Yarn Harbor.
and that…
That’s a Find Your Fade out of mohair. (And if you’re thinking I took the crazy train to make a massive shawl out of mohair, hold onto your hats, you’ll be stunned by what I say next.) I’m thinking it should be called, Find Your Sanity as I try to rip back and fix a mistake in the lace portion. Ripping mohair is not a fun activity. It might just become a very unique Find Your Fade. I’m even thinking of just doing the lace sections at the very beginning and the very end of the shawl and keeping the center knitting easy peasy. I’d like to get this one moving again as it is currently in Time Out. Plus the weather is going to heat up and mohair is not something to play with when it’s 90 degrees F and humid.
some of these for a class…. they are Smooth Operator Socks.
I’ve been doing a lot of the Smooth Operator Socks lately. It’s a great pattern and I really like how the heel fits. And no kitchenering, well how can you beat that?
oh yes, and there has been some of this Joji Mystery Knit Along going on….
I won’t bore you with the whys and wherefores of my busy spring, because we’re all busy. Suffice it to say that summer has its own rhythm around here and it is different from the late winter/spring rhythm. It’s nice to take a deep breath and enjoy the sunlight that we’ve been soaking in. I’m hoping to see the flat surface of my desk sometime soon at the office, and I’m hoping that my house looks less like a middle school locker exploded in the entry which then set off a secondary explosion of a camping store in the rest of the main living area. And maybe, just maybe, I’ll spend a little time knitting in the sun this summer.
Knitting Up North 