03.26.07

Some knitting content, brace yourself

Posted in knitting at 7:58 pm by wendy

In the hustle and bustle of the new year, or the end of the old year, I really can’t remember, I reorganised the shop and stash room and wrote down all of the Unfinished Objects, all the projects that needed a lil sumpin’ sumpin’ to be done.

Of course, I can’t find it.

But here’s something off the top of my head:

• Bottom up Noro Cash Iroha sweater.
• Bicolor Cables Cardi
• Socks
• Map of the World Afghan
• Clapotis for Mom
  
• Pumpkin Hat
• Vegan Fox
• baby socks
• Flower Wash Cloth(es)
• Wear Everywhere Pullover

That’s ten, I know there are more but those are the ones I could think of.

Cash Iroha Bottoms up sweater

Cross your fingers I don’t run out of main color.I did the body in one fell swoop (relatively) but set it down and left it pretty much untouched, I knew I had more MC but couldn’t find it so I put it down and was knitting on the little sweater for Sophie, the linen sweater, working.

We had a chunk of the latter part of February, Nick and I, where we went between work, sleep, and Mom’s place to pack and move and sort and clean nonstop, where it was carried around but probably not touched, where we were perpetually exhausted but relatively focused on what had to be done.

Thank goodness for rental storage units, garages, a voracious culture of Coronado alley/trash pickers, and most of all: Grammy.

Stuff that was in the gray zone, or we knew it couldn’t go but it had to be out, Grammy let us put it in her garage. By the end of the next week, she could park her car in her garage again, but until you’ve had to do this, you’ll have no idea what this means and how much it helps.

Um, digression. Anyway, see how knitting encapsulates memories? Yeah, well, I’ll still wear the sweater. I hope.

I hope to finish this in this month.

BiColor Cable Cardigan

All this needs now is to sew on the buttons and a hell of a lot of easin’ in of the sleeve caps. I double checked row & stitch gauge and they are on pattern, so I’m not sure what’s up. But (if I’m remembering rightly) nearly two inches of easing in is a lot of easing in.

But really, what’s that? Maybe a half hour’s work? So an hour for me and there’s a project done. So, another goal for March. What’s left of March anyway.

I think I’ll leave the other items for another day, another post. It’s not terribly interesting to write (nor read) about stuff that isn’t happening, isn’t finished.

Good times, good times, scraps from memory lane:

Now that is one happy little kid.

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