Taking a flashlight picture of yourself…:-)
Nevertheless, the Rogue hoodie is coming along nicely, and as I closed the shoulder seams today, I simply had to try it on and take a picture.
Of course, and I should have expected this, by the time I had finished dawdling, the weather had changed. Right now it’s gray and rainy outside, pretty beastly and the perfect excuse for spending the weekend cuddled up on the sofa, knitting away to your heart’s content. Which I plan to do, working on the Rogue hoodie I started last week. So you could argue that, figuratively speaking, I am making hay, only who’s going to finish my chores for the weekend is completely beyond me…
The Jury is still out on whether I will ever wear them, but I think I might muster the courage on October 31st.
Somehow pumpkins seem to be a recurring theme in my life currently. I have been meaning to try my hand at quilting for quite a while, and this week I finally set aside some time to visit the local quilt shop. I went in with visions of tastefully combined, intricately pieced quilt tops in my head, stumbled across this
and instantly fell in love with those silly, smiling pumpkins. I mentioned to the shop owner that I could see this in the centre of a log cabin block and she kindly helped me find some matching fabrics. The end result was a halloweenish colour combination which is about as tasteful as a Jelly Bean counter, but what do I care? Just imagine having this
on your sofa to cuddle up under on a grey winter’s day.
But at least there was something in the kitchen to pick me up after an hour of digging and muttering curses under my breath:
Normally I am not into soft drinks, but this seems to be the exception from the rule. Of course, technically I’m still not into soft drinks because, as the Bionade home page takes care to point out, Bionade is produced by a different process than soft drinks. Anyhow, it was just the thing I could do with.
Doesn’t look so bad, does it? Well, it does, if you look closer. You would not believe I spent all summer pulling up weeds, only to have them grow back basically over night. Nature has certainly taught me a lesson this year - you cannot “get it under control”. It’s amazing anything I planted got a chance at all, but there still is hope.
Right now the Sedums are in full blossom and keeping the bees busy on the last warm days of the year. Don’t know how they managed to keep on top of the grass and bindweed, but somehow they did and I’m certainly grateful for it. Also the bumper crop of apples which my old Boskoop apple tree produced this year helps me come to terms with the fact that summer is definitely over.
And apparently the apple tree is not the only one around here who seems to have missed the memo telling them there is only one person to feed in this household. Right now the pumpkins are producing like crazy - I only hope the first frost is still far enough away to let them all ripen.
As usual with lace, it looks like a blob of knitting, nothing to write home about…:-)
I was cruising along nicely and had finished all three stem chards and started the first row of lotus blossoms when I realised that there’s a problem with this project. I thought I had ample yarn, considering the pattern calls for 800m and I had ten skeins of Zitron Ecco in col. 209, each running at 110m length. Unfortunately, despite all skeins sporting the same dye lot number, four of the ten have a completely different tint than the other six - the colours are distinctly colder. I don’t know whether that’s to be expected with this yarn or whether the skeins were mislabeled at the factory, however, I am so not pleased.
If I am lucky, I will be able to squeeze the shawl out of the six similar skeins - at least my calculations say that the first three skeins made almost exactly half of the shawl, and part of the first skein was used for the swatch. But what am I going to do if it doesn’t work out? Perhaps look for a matching solid and do the last rows in that? I’m certainly not using the four remaining skeins, as the colours stand out like a sore thumb.
It’s Cookie A.’s BFF socks in Schachenmayr Nomotta Regia 4-ply colour No. 5242. Those have been on my ToDo-list since I first saw the pattern, and like all Cookie A. patterns I’ve done so far, they were a most pleasant knit. But having finished them, I am now officially without a current sock project. Despite my ravelry queue fastly approaching a length that could keep me occupied not only in this life but all through the next one, I cannot decide on what to knit next.
Perhaps a sweater?
This was a birthday gift from my sister - she said it was “just me” because of the camouflage colours. I wonder what may have planted that thought in her head. I also wonder what the bottle of Irish Mist that accompanied the sock yarn will do to my sock knitting…;-)
Lighthouse Gansey Socks by Anne Henson, published in the Winter 2007 issue of Knitty. The yarn is Lana Grossa Meilenweit Cotton Stretch in col. 8006.