One Crazy Fiber Lady

Having only two active WIPS at any given time on the needles just really wasn’t me. I don’t really count the idle Birch, sitting there in the WIP category as I don’t intend to touch it until Birchington is done. I was feeling somewhat guilty about working on Eris (for me) and Birchington (for me) while poor little Kat lacks a fall sweater. Remember I finally finished Alexander’s not too terribly long ago.

So here I was feeling guilty when I was doing a little blog reading during lunch. What I saw was serendipity. Gir lfriend’s Swing Sweater Coat by Wendy. While a cotton sweater isn’t going to cut it here on the east coast for my monkey girl when it gets cooler, the Jaeger Shetland Aran is the right gauge… and in stash, destined to be a sweater for her. After getting the short people down for the night, I pulled out a skein of the stuff, my trusty Denise Needles and went to work. I quickly replaced the Denise needle with the size 8 Bryspun that arrived last week to really get a sense how well they work. Not bad. I do find the yarn sometimes sticks on the shoulder of the points, but it isn’t horrible and I’m still working on it.

The picture, beyond being a glimpse into my purse/totebag, is where I was this morning half way through my commute. You can also see Birchington wadded up in the front of my bag, my Zen Micro to the left and my Metrocard/NJ Transit passes behind it. Yes Kristen, Birchington is living in the nice blue bag you made for Alexander before Cummington. He loaned it to me as it fit my lace knitting so very well The yellow one is on loan from Kathryn for spindles. The pattern is very easy and pretty straightforward. I’m going to do one modification though, I’ll pick up a button band along the front edges, ala Bonne Marie, and add buttonholes. Kat would be better suited that way rather than a loop as the sweater would get more usage. As with the other kid-knitting I’ve done, this is progressing super fast.

I think I’m going to have to take a short break from knitting outside of the train. I’ve noticed some hand pain in my working hand (left- yes I do knit lefty.. right needle to left – mirror to the rest of you normal knitters). All this knitting might have finally caught up to me. I’m going to try some other activities other than knitting for the next couple of nights. I have some straightening to do, what else is new? I do have company coming next week and need to have the place at least somewhat presentable. Yeti is in dire need of a haircut, so I might just tackle that over the next couple of evenings. Heck, I might even pull out one of the seriously underutilized spinning wheels and give them a go. I just hope the wrist doesn’t complain too much, I ain’t giving up knitting no matter how much it complains.

Craft on.