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Insanity Continues
So on the Saturday before last (Friday night really) I had only this:
And then, earlier tonight I had this:
Those are vintage washable wood buttons from Gather Here in Cambridge and the sweater was knit on size 6 addi turbos in Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sport in the Vera colorway. I got exactly 6 stitches per inch. Every time I think of the colorway I think of this.
Now that I’ve completed 5 Baby Surprise Jackets perhaps I should find another baby sweater pattern I like to knit. Then again, I had to tear out 10 rows to fix a mistake, so perhaps there is still plenty of “surprise” left for me.
In other news, I have 1/2 of a pair of socks knit on my Blackthorn Needles. Mmmm stealth jet needles.
The colors are more vibrant and less washed out and what you cannot see is that I am past the cuff on the next sock and there is 0 bend in the stealth jet needles.
Now if I could just finish the afghan I’m knitting…
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Quick Shots
So I’ve been late in my promise of pictures. To make up for it I’ll post some knitting ones too!
First: Witch Hazel in bloom!
Next: Images from a real first and accomplishment
More on those later… perhaps I’ll even block them and take more pictures.
Then, last night, I started in on something truly stealth while on the bus to NYC
Those are my new Blackthorn Needles, made of carbon fiber, just like the Stealth Jet! In the dim bus and dark backgrounds they felt especially stealthy. If I dropped one it was going to be hard to find.
We made it to the hotel ok and now you can see what I accomplished on the bus besides eating a sandwich!
The colors are pretty close to true there as well. I’ll tell you more about the new socks, the old socks, and the stealth needles later.
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Vacation Wrap-Up
So I have now been home from vacation for exactly 1 week. It sure doesn’t feel that long ago, and it feels like ages ago. It was a wonderful time.
We started out heading out to Northampton to pick up the last member of our ragtag crew. I had shotgun for that leg and had the Madelintosh sock yarn ready to go to start the Kai-Mei socks. (Which I did cast on in the car.)
While there we played a LOT of boardgames, swam. boated, kayaked, I found some fun things in the woods
we relaxed on the deck with a great view of the lake
people went tubing with various levels of success. Our buddy was very successful so the boat driver took evasive maneuvers to try to knock him off.
while when handsome and I went I screamed my head off while he laughed and waved. Contrary to my ascertations, we did not actually die.
We all cooked together and cleaned together and had a great time. We had amazing hosts and everyone did a combination of individual and group things. I got up early every morning to either drink tea and knit, drink coffee and knit/read, or to run and then want to die. (Vermont has these strange things called hills. Cambridge isn’t sure what they are but I think Somerville has heard of them.) This means that in addition to playing a lot of games, swimming, boating, and tubing I also got quite a bit of knitting done. From casting on in the car on Tuesday to leaving on Sunday I was almost done with the heel flap and about ready to turn the heel.
And now I am well on my way onto the foot and working the lace. I also am well on my way to wishing we had another vacation lined up. Maybe we’ll get to go the other place on Vermont, the one with no electricity! (Gas lights = knitting for me but no computers for the fella!)
