A lot has happened in the past 6 weeks since I last posted. One of the big things is that I got a new iPad and have gotten back to digital planning, which has the effect of making me focus on my goals and priorities. Subsequently, I’ve gotten blogging back on my priority list for Mon/Wed/Fri mornings. I’m also keeping track of my projects and plan to spend an hour every morning on my knitting.
I finished knitting Tolsta Tees for myself and Jo (sizes 3 & 5) I just need to weave in the ends, which I plan to do this weekend. In the meantime, I’m going to work on my Elton sweater, which is a welcome change after working on my mom’s blanket. She asked for a lapghan and when I was almost done she said she wanted it to come up to her chin! I kept measuring it and thinking I had only a few inches left, but then after knitting a few inches I would measure again and have more left to go than when I started. I got it to about 56” and called it good enough. I’ve never knit a blanket before, and I don’t plan to do it again for a long time. I only spent 20 days working on it, but it felt like forever. This is a progress photo before I found out that it needed to be 2 feet longer.
Photo dump of the CNY Fiber festival yarn and the Hobbii yarn I had to buy when I realized I didn’t buy enough pink mohair…
My Elton sweater is going to be knit with neon peach yarn that I absolutely love. I got it from my trip to the CNY fiber festival. I had a great time and got a ton of yarn. Everyone was so nice - the one shop gave me the pouch pictured above and everyone else gave me progress keepers. I can’t wait to hopefully go to Rhinebeck in October. I need to get a lot of knitting done before then to justify the trip & more money spent on yarn. I’ve heard that the festival is something that is overwhelming, but that it’s something you should do once in your lifetime. I feel like I will regret not going if I skip it this year and then something happens where they stop having it. The finger lakes fiber festival is cancelled because it got to be too much for the organizers, I guess. The western NY fest is in East Aurora I think which is quite a drive in the opposite direction, but I would rather wait for the big one. Maybe it can be my Christmas gift from Dan. I usually pick what I want online and hand him the phone to put in his payment information to pay for what I want. I think he was going to buy me new AirPods for Christmas, but I couldn’t take it another moment when they started dying every 90 minutes, so I already replaced those.
Time to knit Elton… I love the stripes and smaller needles after the monotony of the knit blanket.
