Finishing up things on Calvados and Cherry Vanilla has left me with a clean-ish knitting slate, so I started to fill it in. With this. It's a replacement for my all time favorite cardigan, who's been getting nastier and nastier by the year. (Keep in mind it was a thrift shop find to begin with!) It was time to upgrade, apparently. I wanted a dark color, DK weight, and to be playing with seed stitch elements.
It's being worked in crap yarn from my stash, so imagine it in a deep, subtly vareigated DK. Smoother and prettier. That's how it'll eventually make its way to you. I'm working things out as I go, as there are proportional elements that I need to see in person in order to figure out how they'll all look together. Can't do it from the chart or the notebook. Hence the crap yarn.
In contrast to the knitting lull, this is one of those weeks where everything else is happening at once. The week after, we've got nothing, but the next few days until Sunday are crazy. And Craig is going out of town tomorrow too, which figures. So, a little stockinette and seed stitch are just about right, don't you think? For that 9pm knitting time I'm going to get.
These were from last weekend -- big giant gin and tonics. With a splash -oops, more than a splash - of OJ. Kind of screwdriveresque gin and tonics. We did the gardens and the grass, so we deserved the supersize kind. Dug big holes. Moved shrubs. Planted blueberries for Zoe. Strawberries for Maya. A cherry tree for me. And the drinks went down easy afterwards.
In contrast to the knitting lull, this is one of those weeks where everything else is happening at once. The week after, we've got nothing, but the next few days until Sunday are crazy. And Craig is going out of town tomorrow too, which figures. So, a little stockinette and seed stitch are just about right, don't you think? For that 9pm knitting time I'm going to get.
These were from last weekend -- big giant gin and tonics. With a splash -oops, more than a splash - of OJ. Kind of screwdriveresque gin and tonics. We did the gardens and the grass, so we deserved the supersize kind. Dug big holes. Moved shrubs. Planted blueberries for Zoe. Strawberries for Maya. A cherry tree for me. And the drinks went down easy afterwards.
In booze news this weekend, when Saturday is over and Sunday arrives, a few friends are coming over to hang out and help me relax. I've already bought a few giant bottles of cheap white wine, and they're sitting patiently a top the fridge - waiting for the White Wine Sangria Pots. And I think that'll go down easy too.
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