A Bit O’Knit
I knit a little bit, finally, on the first day of the year. As far as handknitting, all I did was knit a few inches on Sara’s wristwarmers (belated Christmas present, but it’s finished now).
However, I’m happy to say that I finished both sleeves on my machine knit Funnel Neck from Sally Melville’s Color book. I decreased slightly differently than specified in the book but it will look right when worn.
It’s not finished yet, not until it is blocked and sewn. Good thing I like to sew! I have so much work to do this week, though, and I’m already a little guilty for taking a holiday day off (I swear I can be a guilt machine if I don’t watch it). So that will need to wait for a few days until I have time free for myself again.
It was a good day off, actually. Slept without an alarm clock (woke up when I dreamed the phone was ringing downstairs… it was not). Went on a walk with Brian, had a cup o’tea with him as he had breakfast at the neighborhood diner. Made a special breakfast for myself, drank lots of tea, read some blogs, took a nap. Dreamed of knitting, woke up and played some music with Brian. Made Hoppin’ John for dinner, read a few more blogs, finally sat down and finished the first sleeve and made a whole second sleeve for the funnel neck. A pretty fine day, all in all. Very relaxing.
I am excited about the funnel neck. I have only a few turtlenecks that are wool, and I find myself wishing I had more. It’s funny, all three of them (the two in my closet plus this funnelneck) are some variation on turquoise. No problem, it’s my best color, but maybe the next one should be magenta or raspberry or fuschia, or maybe even eggplant. Now that I know I can make it work on the machine, I may try this again. The yarn I did this one in, is a standard worsted weight wool and so no doubt I could use the same notes for another yarn, it will be easy to hit the same gauge again. Maybe next time I’ll use a washable wool.
The pieces are not blocked so it’s just a pile of wool right now. I’ll show pics when something looks recognizable.
Back to knitting my Bloom shawl! I knit on it a little at the dance Saturday night, so it’s nearly done. And I’m about a third done with a sample sock for the no-purl, replaceable-heel sock class I’m teaching at Rae’s later this term.