When I last wrote I honestly thought I would be updating this blog more consistently — if not weekly, at least monthly. Instead, here I am, four months later with a ton of catch-up and a question as to whether it is worth attempting to resurrect this blog, or just rely on ravelry. If I am going to return to this blog however, I need to catch up.
I did finish the prayer shawl:
Then I picked up a project I had started last summer, a boxy tee from Vogue Knitting Magazine’s Summer 2019 issue. The sweater uses four colors of Prism lace weight linen, held double:
I had started the sweater, but my knitting was erratic and I was overwhelmed by having workmen in the house and I don’t know what, but I only got about a quarter of the sweater knit before I decided to start the cozy cowl cardigan that I showed you two posts back. When I finished the shawl I started knitting again, and was once again entranced by color.
I knit steadily and finished all the pieces. But this sweater is not seamed but knit together with a decorative I-cord using all the colors. I did not have enough yarn.
The problem was that I had started to suspect this outcome by the time I started the fourth piece, but I pushed my worries to the back of my brain and just kept knitting along in blithe denial. Upon reviewing Ravelry, I note that I am not the only one who ran out of yarn, although I also recognize that the problem is at least partially of my own making since I wrote the pattern to accommodate my own gauge but failed to recall that my row gauge was short, meaning I would need additional yarn.
Yarn was ordered and I started working on a pair of socks using Lichen and Lace’s 80/20 sock yarn in a beautiful citron color. Those are now done.
When I ordered the prism yarn, I also ordered yarn for a new project. I know I don’t need yarn, I could knit sweaters for my entire neighborhood from my stash. But, as we all know, need has nothing to do with it. The project is The Perfectly Square Throw from Noro Knitting Magazine #16, and I am knitting it in Noro Taiyo, colorway 124, which includes blues, browns and greens.
I am perfectly entranced with this project. The individual squares are fun to knit, I love watching the colors evolve, and I intend to see this project consistently through to the end. That, in and of itself is a step forward given my more recent inconsistencies in knitting. I am running a little behind my initial plan, but not by much. Life tossed a few detours into my path, but I still think I will manage to finish this project by labor day, even though my initial goal had been September 1st. Then I can resume work on the linen sweater. Weather in knoxville will be warm enough, at least in the normal course of things, to still warrant a linen sweater,
In the meantime, I love the way this sweater has turned out enough that I have already ordered more Taiyo in another colorway so that I can knit it all again.
