There was no knitting on Monday and precious little yesterday or over the weekend -- not for lack of desire. I love knitting with this Rowan Bamboo Tape and I love the weight, drape, and feel of the knitted fabric. I am about 30 rows shy of finishing the front of Granite and I would dearly love to get it on the blocking board today but the simple little contracting job that was supposed to take one or two days has evolved into something that takes all week, and I have to go out on a little hunting mission today before the carpenters get back tomorrow to see if I can find something to solve a little problem. Par for the course I know, but hey, I've got knitting calling my name.
And I need to knit. The queue is piling up to alarming proportions and the little indulgences that cropped into my internet shopping carts during the frustrating stage before I ripped Granite out and reknit, are starting to arrive.
When I was looking for yarn to make that fabulous short sleeve cabled cardigan that I told you about here, I happened upon this fabulous short bolero in bulky yarn. I am fascinated by the orange color, I am in something of an orange phase right at the moment, and I hoped to stop by the store to look at the yarn. Orange is really not a color I should wear close to my face, but since I am really hot for orange mixed with lavenders, purples and grays right now, I thought I could pull it off it was the right shade.
We didn't get to the store, and they didn't have an appropriate substitution at my LYS. As a consolation prize I ordered the book and this really pretty aqua/teal color, which will probably go with more things in my wardrobe. At least I know of at least two potential outfits which have their hearts set on having this cardigan to complete them. We still have to see if the final result works. Hearts are so easily broken.
The day I didn't get to the yarn store we were at a concert and at some point or another I was bored and let my mind wander. I will say that my thoughts were concert related as I was thinking about what I would wear to the next 5 concerts in the series, and it occurred to me that I really needed a lilac cotton or light to mid-weight cardigan.
Once home, a search of the stash did not yield the right yarn. Why do I have so little lilac? I wear enough of it, you would think I would have scads. Actually I do have a lilac sweater, way to big at the moment, and out of a handpainted yarn so it is not quite what I had in mind.
I was also perusing the Elann website looking at something a friend had ordered, when I happened upon the perfect lilac yarn, which happened to arrive yesterday. The new Filati Handknitting also arrived, and it has some cute designs, but I think I should hold off on perusing this issue as I am already overwhelmed with choices, quite a few of which I want to knit immediately.
So the lilac Jaeger yarn will get delayed, probably until closer to spring, and the Aqua Gedifra has jumped up the list to be next in line (for simple mindless knitting anyway). I do also need to resurrect quite a few unfinished and pending projects, most of which require more thoughtful knititng.
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