4/14/09

In spite of the migraine I have had for the past week, I did manage to have a nice Easter weekend.  On Saturday my husband and I went over to the Sheep Festival in Waterloo.  It was a good time, but I was a little disappointed that there weren’t more animals and vendors.  I guess maybe I am spoiled from going to Estes.  We had fun anyway and I bought a couple of fleeces from my friend Cindy.  Watching the dogs herding the sheep  is always neat and the dogs were such sweet dogs too.

I was actually looking forward to cooking an Easter dinner this year.  I even bought new table linens for it.  But thank goodness my SIL invited us to her dinner.  My migraine was so bad Sunday morning that I didn’t think I was going to make it through church.  I got home, took my meds and I was fine for the rest of the day and our dinner was wonderful!  I wished I would have taken a picture of our salads.  They were so pretty and each one had an easter egg placed in the center with our name on it.

I am moving along on the FLS. I’m past the eyelet increases and almost to the lace patterning. Thank God! I was beginning to wonder if I had the will to keep knitting the garter stitch anymore. It was seeming endless, but maybe that is because this is my 3rd one.

What a day

Yesterday was the most frustrating day I’ve had in quite awhile.  First off my computer was running slow and I needed the eyelet increase calculations  for the FLS before taking my husband to the doctor.  He was having a procedure done that left me in the waiting room for an hour and a half so there was lots of knitting time and I wanted to be prepared for it.  I ended up leaving without my calculations for the eyelet increases and wouldn’t you know it, 10 minutes into my knitting time I needed these.  So I called my friend Nancy who looked it up for me on her computer and then read it off to me.  Problem solved?  No!  Turns out that the calculations were wrong.  In fact they were way off.  Then I started worrying about my gauge.  I did a gauge swatch before I even started the sweater.  Turns out my gauge is now way off.  So I am left with nothing to knit while I wait and now I am going to have to rip out a weeks worth of knitting.  Argh!  I am beginning to think the February Lady Sweater wasn’t meant to be.  Afterall this was my 2nd attempt (the 1st was a bad choice in yarn).  I have been looking for something to knit that is similar but I really want to make this sweater so I guess I’ll try it a 3rd time and hope it’s a charm.

I then spent most of the day trying to figure out what was wrong with my computer.  I finally broke down and called the cable company.  Turns out I was getting a bad signal and they fixed the problem.  Why didn’t I do that in the beginning?  I was sure that wasn’t the problem.  Oh well, nothing left to do but  finish the day off with a Guinness and  Reese cups to make it better.  Guinness and Reese cups really do go together pretty well

Where have I been?

I’ve been wondering that too! I’ve been really busy lately with dyeing special orders, teaching classes and knitting.  Oh and I have been redecorating my house so that involved a little shopping.  Since my house sits in a wooded area and doesn’t get much natural light coming in, I wanted to brighten things up a little to make it less dark all of the time.  I really like what I’ve done and it has really helped lift my spirits.

I think in one of my last posts I was starting the February Lady Sweater with Classic Elite Renaissance yarn.  I ended up ripping it out.  The yarn was too dark and earthy for what I thought should be a feminine looking sweater.  Hmmm….I see a trend.  I ended up ordering Dream in Color Classy in the Butter Peeps colorway and I’m liking it much better.

I haven’t gotten very far yet, but I didn’t get very far into the first one when I frogged it either.  I’ve discovered that I can wear yellow now and so I’m loving knitting with this yarn since it is a color I haven’t worked very much with.

In between frogging the first FLS and starting the second, I started Mr. Greenjeans out of Classic Elite Waterlily in a beautiful green.  This is another sweater that I’ve been wanting to make for awhile and I’m enjoying working on it too.  I love the shading of the greens in this yarn but it wants to split every now and then which is annoying (it is 4 strands of 2 ply).

I want to focus on knitting sweaters this spring and summer.  We’ll see how that goes!   I just need to keep remembering how cold I was this winter.  This was the first Missouri winter where I was actually cold most of the time and felt like I needed a sweater or a scarf.  Which reminds me I bought a skein of Malabrigo laceweight to do a scarf which may interrupt my sweater knitting.  I’ll just let it me my diversion when I need one.