I have been making great progress on the mossy green sweater. It has been so wonderful knitting with worsted weight yarn that I have found all the nooks and crannies of time to work on it. I am especially enjoying that I have a colleague at work who also knits, so we've been comparing projects. I started my third ball of wool yesterday, and am already nearly done with it today. Fourth ball start by tomorrow, I am sure.
card table, inc.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
two weeks of moss
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
second sweater start
Am I crazy? I started a second sweater last week. Granted, part of the intention is to get a few projects going past the fiddly cast on/first few rows stage, but still. Do I bite off more than I can chew? There may even be a third sweater coming. Such hubris!
This will be my second go-round with this particular pattern so I have some great notes in my margins. I am being cavalier and not gauge swatching despite using a different yarn. Part of me feels like it's an awful lot of work to do without checking first, but I also feel like having made this before I have a decent intuition of how the finished garment will behave and it's pretty forgiving. I may be learning some hard lessons about gauge this fall, but I am going to take what the universe gives me and either declare victory or be grateful for the "now I know better" moment(s).
Thursday, September 4, 2025
mossy green sweater start
I am enjoying the color very much and have already nearly finished one cake of yarn. I have another, but the rest is still on order so I may pause here until I can get the rest of the skeins to see if the dye lots are significantly different. In that case I'll figure out how to mix in this other ball with the rest so I don't end up with a weird color block at the bottom of the garment. I'll be calling the shop today or tomorrow to see if they've arrived.
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
summer wall hanging, finished
Thursday, August 28, 2025
stashing and starting
It feels good to be organized in the craft room again, to have infused a few new things, and to have some plans! It was also really fun to take a tour around my favorite shops with my parents. I am lucky in how many great places there are pretty close by. May they continue to thrive.
Sunday, August 24, 2025
quadrant cowl, finished
Friday, August 22, 2025
Pacific Grove favorites
Well true to form a trip to Pacific Grove with my folks turned into a tour of some old favorites! We headed down for a day trip to "see the ocean", which included a lovely lunch at a coast-side local park, and pretty much my favorite other thing to do there which is to check out the local yarn and fabric shops.