Toonie for scale

Hello! I hope everyone had a wonderful Canada day! We were planning on taking B to his very first fireworks this year (and what better time than Canada day?), but it ended up pouring rain in the evening and we figured they would be cancelled. Luckily for us, we live in a city that has a fireworks competition going on during the month of July and when M is on vacation, we'll take him.

Instead of knitting on the projects I've already cast on; Villeneuve, Nimbus infinity scarf, Be Simple, etc, I decided to cast on a sweater. Several weeks ago, I saw a woman wearing a three colour sweater and I really liked the look of it, and had been obsessing about recreating the sweater. I sat with the idea for awhile, drew up a little picture and stuck it to the wall near my knitting stuff. Eventually, I got around to ordering the contrast yarns from Knitpicks. I already had a large enough quantity in my stash for the main body of the sweater, so I didn't need a lot of yarn. I ordered 4 balls of Marble Heather, which is the colour that I'm starting off with. It will be the neckline and shoulders of the sweater. The pattern I'm using is Andi Satterlund's "A Cropped Sweater for Winter" because I've made one already and I like the fit and the shape. I will be following the numbers needed to get the sweater fit the way I want, but I won't be doing the colourwork. I'm making a smaller sweater than my usual size to account for my loose gauge and swish's tendency to grow like a mofo.

I only ordered 4 balls of the swish in Marble Heather

(I always think there is way more yardage to swish than there actually is) and now I'm wondering if I should have went with 2 or even 3 more balls, for good measure? I basically want to get to just under the armpit with the grey and then switch to the light grey that I had in stash. I also need to make sure I have enough leftover  to do the ribbing at the neckline. Hrm. 

I guess I'll knit as much as I can with the grey and then decide if I need to order more. Hopefully, the possible Canada Post strike is over by that time. It's not like I'll be able to wear the sweater any time soon anyway, so there really isn't a rush.

The second colour I ordered is Honey.

In the original sweater, the sleeves were a dark teal, but I loved the Honey so much ( I used it in my black death), and while I don't know if I could wear a whole sweater out of that colour, I can definitely wear it as sleeves.

I know I complain about ordering from Knitpicks because of the shipping costs, and the exchange rate, but they have such a good range of colours and their merino is really quite lovely to work with.

Uncropped Sweater Update: So, with the second ball of Marble Heather, I was able to join the front and back and knit just past the armpit, I also decided to switch to the light grey swish at that point. I will definitely have enough for sleeves and the neck ribbing. Problem solved. I think the two colours work really well together.  I am ridiculously excited about this sweater.

I'm pretty close to finishing my second Blood Orange sock. I've got another inch or so, until I start the decreases. I had divided the yarn into two cakes (to fit in my sock bag better) and I managed to get all of the first and most of the second sock done with one cake, I still had some leftover from the first sock I made with the yarn (yunno, the one that's never going to have a mate) so I will definitely be able to finish this sock.

                                          (leftover from first sock, toonie for scale, eh)

Here is the last picture I took of Villeneuve before it went into hibernation:

Here are some pictures of my All Year Cardy. I'm totes making another one, love love love this little cardy.

When I started adding all my yarns to the stash on Rav, I came across another wip. I remember the yarn is zauberball, it's black and teal and I think I was knitting a shawlette, but can't for the life of me, remember which one. Of course there were no notes in the ziploc bag-just a started project on the needles, maybe 15 rows in? Something garter stitch. I decided to hank it back up, it's obviously been caked up for quite the while. It's pretty, but I don't know what I'll do with it. I'm eventually going to see if I blogged about it, get some more info on it, maybe even add it to my stash page and find a project that interests me!

I think I may also frog Smash, and hank that yarn back up as well. I'm just not feeling it.




So now that we are in the first week of July (Happy 4th of July to those of you who celebrate!), I need to set all other projects aside and work a shawl for an upcoming bday! My lovely daughter P, has requested Reyna, in black and she's definitely a knitworthy recipient. Also, she really loved my Reyna made of woobu and I'm a sucker for high praise.  I'm using some more Knitpicks yarn, this time Galileo and using 4.5mm needles, so it should be a quickish knit if I only focus on the shawl. My goal is to have it off the needles and blocked by the 1st of August (her birthday is the 2nd).
I'm not finding the Galileo as enjoyable to knit with this time around, it feels more coarse, almost straw-like. I'm hoping it's just a weird batch and will soften and bloom as wonderfully as it did the first time I knit with Galileo.

Now off to get some knitting done-because the sooner I finish this shawl, the sooner I can get back to mah sweaters!