Actual. Knitting. Content.

I know. You probably need to sit down for a minute. Go ahead, I’ll wait. I haven’t been knitting too much, mostly I’m completely wrapped up in Yarning. I’m trying to dye up as much as possible before I leave (again) next week. Can I tell you how sick and tired I am with leaving town so often? I am. I can’t wait til after New Years, when I’ll be home for a couple of months before traveling again. I feel like I can’t get anything done leaving all the time like this. Gah.

So my knitting isn’t keeping me interested lately. You know that kind of knitting? All blah. I’m not even interested in started something new either. I’m just tired. I have one thing I’m knitting for a certain someone for Christmas this year. As a rule I don’t knit Christmas presents. I don’t like to toil and sweat over something someone might like. I knit for myself. But this year I am knitting one fun thing, and if I finish it it’ll be a good laugh when I give it to its intended recipient. If not, I’m not worried about it. I will show you a snippet though.

I’m knitting this in Plymouth Galway, which is my hands down favorite no nonsense wool. Color 12. It’s a really nice deep cranberry color. This pattern is super easy too, it’s actually a mock cable pattern, which I haven’t done before, but I’m pretty amused at how authentic it looks. If I wasn’t a knitter, I wouldn’t even know.

I have to show you these,

This blue blob is two, count them two, finished Whiskey Sleeves. As yet unblocked. I finished them a few days ago, the last few rows before the sleeve cap on the second one nearly did me in, but I got a second wind when I started the cap shaping, which didn’t take more than an evening. When I compared the 2nd cap to the first, I decided that I must have been drunk when I knit the first one. Seriously. Some of the decreases made no sense at all. They did not follow the pattern, and I completely glanced over an entire section. I rewrote the sleeves, but pretty much stuck to the way the cap shaping was written, although I did reshape the very top, so I wouldn’t end up with the poofy cap sleeves that the pattern has. I ended up ripping the 1st cap almost all the way down and reknit it, but again, it didn’t take to long.

As a little reward for finishing these babies, I started the back of a new sweater with the Araucania Nature wool I bought myself for my blogiversary. I was all gung ho about the whiskey sweater, but you know what, I’m supposed to enjoy my knitting, and I’ll start what I want when I want. Damnit. I’ll just work on them simultainiously.

I’m really liking this yarn. Nice and wooly. I’m knitting a pattern that I’ve knit before, and that sweater has become my most favorite, most worn sweater. So I’m knitting another, but adjusting my gauge for this thinner yarn. I can not get enough of the color.

So that’s about all. Except for the mandatory, take everywhere sock, of course.