Lots of WIPs

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I did a video. Phew, it’s taken a bit to get started again but here it is. Hi, I’m back.

I got the sleeves done on my Just For You V Pullover. I am patting myself on the back for getting that done. Yay me!

I must admit sleeve knitting can put me off stockinette stitch knitting for a bit. It’s not the knit stitches, because I totally love garter stitch, it’s the sameness of it. I usually put some design element in the sleeve to keep myself busy but this time I didn’t for no obvious reason I can think of now. That was a mistake. So no stockinette stitch for a while (except for socks, of course).

Speaking of socks, I’m going knit socks to stockpile them for birthdays and next Christmas (who is this person?). I’m continuing with Cat Bordhi’s New Pathways for Sock Knitters book. The next toe-up is the Corialis Architecture sock. The swirl is so cool and at this point I don’t know if the swirl is going to run into the heel flap or get above it. How can it swirl around the entire sock and if it doesn’t? I can’t see it yet. These photos assure me that it will.

That’s keeping me engaged in this sock. Weird as that is, it’s the possibility that it might fail that keeps me knitting. Is this totally off base?

The modular knitting continues and continues and continues. Project number 3 with the Lichen and Lace Rustic Heather wool is the Clint shawl by Moonstruck Knits. Here’s where I am so far. The first corners are not great, worse than that, they are terrible. I do feel like they are getting better as I continue on. I almost stopped a couple times and started over but I gave myself a talking to about being a perfectionist and got over myself, at least I think I did. (I still see those miss aligned corners every time I pick it up, argh.)

I do have enough yarn to keep knitting squares for another shawl or blanket with hopefully better corners. The corners are the reason I am not a quilter. I can not do them nicely with fabric either!

Let it go and have some fun. That’s what it’s all about, right? That’s what I’m going to do.

Cheers, Deb

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