Despite all my complex plans, multiple sweaters were not begun.
My transient life was just too complicated, and I was too tired to knit, or too hot to knit, or too something anyway. I did get all the yarn wound for the Kaffe Fassett Summer Tweed sweater and then did nothing except rearrange yarn storage facilities, moving the pending project pile to the hassock which used to contain the various odd balls and leftovers, and making a new bag for odd-balls. Anything to actually avoid knitting I suppose.
There was no translation from the French.
I did spend some time reading, often arriving at the hotel too tired to knit, especially to knit fine cotton in a dark room with uncomfortable chairs. Instead I read.
Christian Jungersen's The Exception was a good, gripping story, something to look forward to and wrap myself up in, and it completely took me by surprise. It was farm more interesting than gauge swatches and knitting translations, and I found myself going back over sections and passages, trying to determine if I had missed something along the way.
But of course I did start some knitting, I just didn't get very far with it. It took me a few tries to get gauge, but I did start the Anny Blatt sweater, Passel.
This seemed like the easiest sweater with which to begin. I don't believe it needs much alteration in the shaping. I like the length of the sweater, but 22" is shorter on me than on the model, ending up about hip bone height. I needed to alter the waist shaping accordingly. Even so I only got about 20 rows knitted during the two weeks the air-conditioning was out at the house and we were commuting from hotel to house daily. I knitted more last Thursday at knitting class/group than in the entire previous two week period. Still, I do need to check the armhole, shoulder and neckline shaping before I progress too far, lest I regret not having done so.
I am enjoying knitting the sweater, it is not that I don't enjoy actually knitting it, more that life has been full and busy and I just haven't found the time to sit down and relish the process. Mango is really a lovely yarn to knit, and the intermittent rows of Muguet occur just frequently enough to keep the rows and rows of stockinette from becoming tedious.
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