There's been some dramatics in the morning with B; "I cannot handle another day at school" with the arm draped over the forehead, but once he sees that it doesn't phase me, he does get up and get dressed without any difficulty. So far.
(I know it won't last)
I have no FO's to share, and only a handful of WIPs. There has not been a lot of knitting this past week.
I am still knitting the Greenfield cardigan. I am never, ever, ever going to be finished the Greenfield cardy. I've been telling myself that I want it finished by the end of October. I seem to work well with a deadline that is far enough that I won't feel so pressured that I'll quit, but far enough that I can put it down and work on other things (like the Virpi Shawl).
I'm mostly finished the first sleeve and currently working on the second sleeve. The first sleeve hasn't been bound off yet, because I want to wait until the whole sweater has been finished so I can see how it fits before I either bind off or add another inch or so.
I'm really happy with how the Field Mouse(grey) looks next to Medieval (purple).
In between working on the sleeves, I'll add a row here and there on the body-I'm at the waist shaping now. I just keep switching the needle tips for the end caps. I really do love interchangeables for that reason. Cables are so inexpensive (at least for the knitpicks/knitters pride sets) that I could probably have 8-9 projects on the cables that require the same size needle tips.
I love the yarns (Miss Babs and MadTosh), but I am getting tired of this sweater. Which isn't fair, because I've hardly been knitting on it! I think I need to change my stance on knitting top down, seamless cardies. Maybe I do prefer knitting those in pieces. Except for the sleeves, I need to figure out how to knit a cardy in pieces, seam it, and then pick up stitches around the armhole and knit the sleeves in the round. I could probably manage that. If I frankenstein a pattern.
Top down, seamless pullovers are still my jam though. Shout out and fist bumps to mah TDSP!
My sock mojo is still kind of low, but I've actually been knitting my second rainbow sock while waiting for B after school. I haven't taken any pictures, it basically looks like the sock from this post except shorter, I'm on my second row of yellow.
And finally, I've decided to re-work on my Cypress cardy. I had liked how it turned out, with some small issues until I wore it a few times. I basically stopped wearing it because I had issues with the arms. Can I just say how weird it is to me that a sweater knit in a worsted weight, wool and alpaca (aka warm) yarn would have 3/4 length sleeves. Why is this a thing? I mean, dude, if it's cold enough for me to wear a sweater that is warm, why am I exposing my forearms and wrists? Anywhoo, I'd been thinking about unpicking the bind off, ripping back and lengthening the sleeves. In theory, it would work perfectly. In practice? Not so good. I am absolutely RUBBISH at unpicking a year old, washed and worn sweater bind off. So I cut it instead.
Why yes, I am insane.
I measured a specific length, picked up stitches around the sleeve, knit a round and started some ribbing. I have no idea how it's going to turn out-I envision it having kind of a bell sleeve, ending at the elbow, where it tightens and ribs all the way down to my wrist. Kind of "leg of mutton"ish. Either I'm going to hate it, and not wear it at all (and I'm not wearing it now so,..yunno), or I'll like it and actually get some wear out of it.
The thought of fixing up Cypress actually came about because I found the yarn for the sweater (Valley Yarns Stockbridge) while I was organizing my stash, I weighed the balls-50 grams for the big balls, 8 grams for the small ball, plus the two 50gram skeins. That gives me about 453 yrds to finish both sleeves, I think I can manage it.
I really want to cast on other things. I want to learn how to do toe up socks (yet I don't want to actually knit the socks) I want to finish all the unfinished socks (without actually knitting the socks) I want to knit something with a gradient kit (that isn't socks). I want to learn to thrum. And spin. I need a 3 week retreat in the woods. Just me, and all mah knitting, and a bunch of tv shows (I just started watching Weeds-how did I miss that when it first aired?) and a yoga mat for exercise.
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