Getting those WIPs off the needles!

I'm kind of bummed. I finished watching season 1 of Stranger Things, and season 3 of Penny Dreadful. Both were fantastic but now I have nothing to watch. I need something to fill the hole left behind. I've started watching Ash vs Evil Dead...and I'm enjoying it, but it hasn't sucked me in like Penny Dreadful and Stranger Things. I am loving the over-the-top goriness though, and I adore Bruce Campbell.

So, going back to the Aeris Shawl- I did not have the knitting stamina to do all the 18 rows of section 2, before starting the garter section. I did manage to get to row 12, but I could not bear the thought of doing one more row of seed stitch. The garter stitch border went relatively quick, and the (super stretchy) bind off took just over an hour.
I ran out of yarn during the bind off, so I had to join another ball for the last 4 inches of bind off.
I've worn it every day since I took if off the blocking mats.
The one bummer? While it's not irritating or itchy in any way, it also didn't soften up very much with soaking.

So with that done, I picked up my Margot sweater and started the sleeves. I added some stitches to the underarm, and am doing a full length sleeve instead of a 3/4 length so I added some arm decreases as well.  The sleeves actually knit up quite fast, faster than I remember sleeves taking.
Finishing the sweater felt so good, and trying it on felt even better. I love this sweater, I think it's the best fitting sweater I've ever made. I'm in love with it and I want to make one in all the colours!
I haven't washed it yet, but I'm wearing it. I'm almost scared to wash it, in case it shrinks in weird places, or grows in the wrong places. I'll be devastated, because I really love this sweater.

Now, according to my Rav stash, I had 6 skeins of the Candombe, I joined a new skein halfway through the second sleeve, leaving one unwound skein in the bag. I've either misplaced a skein or what I thought was my fourth skein, was actually my fifth.
I need to take better notes.

Anywhoo, so now that I'm done with the sweater, or course, I immediately want to make another one, but I can't, not yet anyway.  I'm not casting on anything new. I'm going to focus on finishing all the projects on the needles, or frogging projects that I have no interest in finishing, and reclaiming the yarn for other things. I'm going to start by finishing the legwarmers, because it looks like I'm going to need those pretty soon, it's getting cold, and we might get snow very, very soon (*cries*).  Then, it will be time to figure out if my slip stitch infinity scarf and be simple are to be frogged. If I keep working on my infinity scarf, then I will decide if I want to undo the bind off on the fingerless mitts that I made using the same yarn and turn them into full mitts, or just make a matching hat. Either way, there needs to be something matching. I need two out of three pieces* to be made with the same yarn (or at least the same colour). Then, I need to finish my 58 chevy sock.

My yarn crush box came!

 Sadly, it's my last box as financially, it's just not a good fit for me right now. it was a good experience, and I may do it again at some point. The patterns were interesting, and the little extras were pretty nifty. I really love getting to try new yarns, and this months yarn is absolutely gorgeous! I'm not going to make the boot toppers (which are super cute) because I generally stomp around in  docs, so that would be a waste of the yarn. I may do a hat, since that is one of my favourite ways to try out different yarns. I love the buttons, and they will definitely get used on a future project.

The yarn is by Lichen and Lace, and is a worsted weight merino in the colourway Grey Pumpkin, it's an olive-y grey with reddish orange flecks.

The little extra in this months box is a ceramic shot glass made by JaMpdx; and it's the perfect size for the stitch markers I made.

I've made a lot of stitch markers. I lose a lot of stitch markers.


*just to clarify; by two out of three pieces, I am referring to the trifecta of cold weather woolens- hat, mitts, scarf. So, I need to have: scarf and hat or scarf and mitts or hat and mitts be made with either the same wool or the same colour.
Never three pieces though, that would be way too kookoobananas.