FO: Pocion Flax

That's right y'all, I finished my Flax sweater and I adoooore it. Seriously, I think it's my most favourite knitted item. I love everything about it! The size is perfect. The yarn is gorgeous and soft.
It took almost a month to knit, which is pretty fast (for me) considering I also finished a shawl in that time frame.
The only problem? It's been a huge pain in the ass trying to get a good picture of this sweater! None of the pictures I've taken have done it justice.

I really tried. On several occasions. Those four are the best I could come up with...shitty pics in the description, folks.



The day after I finished the Flax, I cast on another sweater. Knit ALL THE SWEATERS!  Soooo, Easy Raglan V Neck by Stephanie Japel. This is version 3.0 and I'm knitting it in my Miss Babs Yowza in Bat Shit Crazy (which is why I'm calling it the Bat Shit Crazy Sweater aka BSCS)

It's the only thing I've been knitting on, I'm just totally hooked on knitting it. I've even been using it as my travel knitting. . Yowza is a fantastic yarn to knit with, and the colours in this skein are insanely fabulous. It literally has every single colour in one skein.

So I'm using Yowza, which is a light worsted/DK weight on 5.5mm/size 9 needles, and I'm really liking the how the fabric looks. I didn't swatch, so I was a bit concerned, but it seems to be working out. It'll make a drapier, airier sweater, which will be really comfortable to wear, though probably not as warm as an Aran weight on 5.5mm needles.
I liked the results from how I did the bust increases on Flax, so I'm doing the same thing with the BSCS; I'm doing the bust increases only at the front of the sweater (yunno, where the breasts are) and not at the back of the sweater (no boobs!)
I know I'm not going to be able to get a whole sweater out of the 2 skeins, as generous as they are, so I ordered some SweetGeorgia DK weight in Charcoal for the ribbing. Of course, as I was writing this, I realized that I have leftover Yowza in Field Mouse that I could probably use as the contrasting colour for the ribbing on the body and sleeves.
Edit: Nope. I pulled out the leftover Field Mouse, it will NOT look good with the Bat Shit Crazy. The Field Mouse is too light, so yay on the SweetGeorgia Charcoal.
Which better get here soon, because I'm nearing the end of my first skein of yowza, and there is a small, lunatic part of me that thinks I should just try and make the whole sweater out of the 2 skeins. Like I could cake up the second skein, leave the body on waste yarn, knit the sleeves and then use whatever is leftover to finish the body...

Yeah, so I ordered stuff. That one skein of DK weight, but also a wraps per inch tool ('cause handy!), a set of three extra cords, plus connector for my Addi Olivewood needles, a llama mug, and llama-rama tote bag. And another project bag because it had sheep on it, made of little balls of yarn. It's cute, but I might return it, because while it's bigger than I expected, the handles are too short for my liking.

(stock photo, because I haven't taken it out of it's wrapping yet)
No picture of the addi cords, but it you really need to see them, google will help ya out.

I haven't been knitting anything except the v-neck. I'm at the point where I still have like 7 inches of body to go, and while I am still really enthralled with the sweater, and not particularly interested in casting anything on at the moment, I did come across a project that I fell in love with and have vowed to cast it on when I'm done the sweater. It's called Ingot and it's a pattern by Lisa Murch. It's a cowl knit with 320 yrds of DK weight on size 8mm/US11 needles and I love that it's a cowl and can also be pulled over your shoulders like a shawl.
I'm super sad that I don't have any yarn* for this project so I may just have to head on over to Espace Tricot for the perfect yarn...I love love love Artfil's Merikana DK in their Storm colourway, but I'd also like to try The Fibre Company Arcadia, which is a blend of Merino, Alpaca and Silk. I'd like to see the colours in person, especially Moraine, with it's little slubby bits of blue.


I did it, I finally gave up on Gilmore Girls. I made it to the 7th season. Watched a bit of the first episode, then watched a bit of a random ep, then I watched all of the knitting episode (Stars Hollow has a knit-athon to raise money for a bridge-many knits!) and finally turned it off and let it go. I started watching Santa Clarita Diet, which is delightful, and Espace Tricot put out a new episode of their video podcast (which can be found on youtube and is quite enjoyable!) My only issue with the Espace Tricot podcast is that they talk about cool shit that they sell in their store. Very tempting. Very enable-y. I want to get some of their Clover circular stitch holders and I want to get a mesh sweater dryer.

I haven't been reading too much lately, though I did pick up a Patricia Briggs book, Frost Burned, which is part 7 of the Mercy Thompson series but it's been slow going. I started my course at the Gold Centre, it's the Support Worker  Training Program (focusing on ASD) and I think it will be helpful in dealing with B, and also help me at work. I think it will also be beneficial, with other similar courses, if I try to get work as an integration aid at the school in a couple of years.
B really seems to enjoy Roald Dahl books, so when I was on library duty I took out James and the Giant Peach (which I've never read). The week before, I had taken out an adapted Star Wars book, that we didn't really care for. Hopefully James and the Giant Peach goes over just as well as Fantastic Mr Fox and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory did.





*Full disclosure; I have a nice amount of DK yarn stashed, but it's all stashed with specific projects in mind, therefore it's as if I don't actually have any stashed at all.

Oh, and I've made up my mind, I'm going to attempt to knit the whole sweater with just the two skeins of yowza...wish me luck!