Pocion is beautiful. It's so earthy, and soothing, with navy blues and dark reds, some greens, browns and even splashes of gold. It is crazy to me how different the colours look in every picture.
I'm having trouble staying monogamous.
I've been craving shawl knitting. I wanted to cast on the Nereid Shawl by Ambah O'Brien but I had so much trouble deciding on what yarn to use that I never cast it on. I wanted to go up to sport weight (and needles as well) instead of fingering. I wanted to use stashed yarn, and not have to buy more yarn ('cause i'm back on my yarn diet). I have enough yardage of several different colourways, but I just don't know what to use. Most of the colours I have in the right yardage, are variegated. I'm not sure how I feel about using a variegated yarn in the pattern, and I think a subtle tonal would be fine, but I would really prefer a solid or semi-solid.
I was so frustrated with not having the "right" yarns for Nereid, I started looking through other patterns on Ravely. I fell in luuuurve with a shawl called Zaria, which would be a great stash buster for some of my sport weight variegated yarns-except that it also calls for solid colour yarn in the lace section. Argh. I have no solid (or semi-solid) colour yarn that goes well with any of my variegated yarns *sad face* Maybe going up to DK weight might work in terms of solid yarn, but then I don't have any variegated DK weight.
I finally ended up casting on a second Black Death Shawl. The desperation of needing to cast something on and being able to, thanks to having the perfect yarn in stash! I'm using Manos Del Uruguay Silk Blend (70% Merino, 30% silk) in Black. It's a DK weight yarn instead of the Aran weight the pattern calls for, so I'm going down a needle size; 4.5mm (US 7) instead of 5mm (US 8). I'll be making the larger version of the shawl this time around. It's not a difficult knit at all, but I do need to pay some attention, keeping track of how many knit stitches in between YOs and K2TOGS. Still, it's a good knit for watching a show.
I'm alternating between knitting the shawl and the sweater. I knit on Flax at night, and if I have any time to knit during the day, I'll knit on the shawl. So far it's working out pretty well. Usually, I'll cast on something new, and the older project gets thrown into a project bag and forgotten while I focus on the new project. Then, once the new project is done I immediately start thinking about what else to cast on instead of going back right away to the old WIP. If I switch back and forth, maybe I won't get so overwhelmed by WIPS, but also, I'll always have something on the needles. Plus my bag socks.
Yeah, I still have those tourmaline socks on the needles. I've just started the gusset decreases.
I've been working my way through Gilmore Girls. I didn't ever watch when the show originally played (except for the episodes with Sebastian Bach), and when the 4 new episodes came out on Netflix I watched, and I was kind of...well, not impressed. I didn't much like Rory or Lorelai. So, logically, it made complete sense to start from the 1st episode. I'm now at the beginning of season 4, and I don't know if I'll be able to make it through many more episodes of this season. I still don't really like the Rory character.
In better tv watching (well, netflix watching) I started a new show called Crazyhead, which I'm really enjoying, it's a horror comedy (demons) and it's really well done. A little gruesome at times, but not overly so.
I finished that book about the Pickton murders. It wasn't what I thought it was going to be. I figured the first half of the book would set the stage, and it did, but the second half of the book was disappointing. I think I was anticipating more of a True Crime style book...and less about the author's frustrations and PTSD.
So now I'm back on an Ilona Andrews kick. I've read most of the Kate Daniels' series of books and really enjoyed them; fun, light reads with enjoyable characters. I started off with two novellas, Alpha: Origins, and Magic Stars, before going into Magic Binds. I didn't much care for Alpha: Origins. It started off okay, and then it got clunky. Weird story, and the two main characters falling for each other so fast, given that one of them is meant to be food for the other? Yeeeeah, not buying it.
Magic Stars is wayyyyy better, and also the beginning of a new series, and I think it's going to be a good one. This means, I'll have to avoid the new series until at least 4 books in the series are out. I'll want to devour them, and having to wait for the next book in a series is so hard.
And now I'm off to drink some tea, and do some knitting!
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