Holy Saturday Morning!
Holy Saturday morning, Batman! Why did we wake up at 4:30 AM? Why couldn't we get back to sleep? We don't know.
But definitely naps are happening later, if there's to be Major Singing for Hours tonight.
Am nearly done with the second half of the border to Starmore's Scapa, from Scottish Garland (working it in teal colored Fleet). The Fleet isn't luxurious to work with, naturally, and it takes a while to get things done, given that tiny gauge -- but the sculptural quality of the work is highly satisfying. The picture given with the directions shows the vest made in an off-white Fleet, and very nice it is, but I thought the teal would be lovely. So I was pretty gratified last night to discover, while idly looking through the book, taking a little time off the knitting itself, to discover, in the picture for Flora, that the model is holding a piece of knitting-in-progress, and it's Scapa! In teal! Somebody else thought it was a good idea, too, a long long time ago.
Working hard at it -- when I can -- cause the Knitting Season's nearly over. (We don't have air conditioning. No knitting in the summer.)
In the meantime, we've got a hickory swingset going up in the tiny backyard. It comes out of a kit. I'm interested to discover that this involves holes drilled wrong at the factory, and missing screws. Do we call up the manufacturers? We do not! Sam drills new holes and finds new screws down in the workroom. This is a very different method of fixing the situation than is required when the kits I use go wrong -- that involves whining and then going on eBay to find extra skeins of long discontinued and very expensive yarns. There's some reason I didn't take up woodworking instead of textiles, but I can't remember it at the moment...
At any rate, sleep or no sleep, it's Holy Saturday, and that means Lamb Cake. Sam has magically produced the mold from the depths of the storeroom, and the oven's preheating. I'm going to drag out the mixer myself, but I think I might just use Cake Mix, emblem of shame. After that, I'm going back to bed.
But definitely naps are happening later, if there's to be Major Singing for Hours tonight.
Am nearly done with the second half of the border to Starmore's Scapa, from Scottish Garland (working it in teal colored Fleet). The Fleet isn't luxurious to work with, naturally, and it takes a while to get things done, given that tiny gauge -- but the sculptural quality of the work is highly satisfying. The picture given with the directions shows the vest made in an off-white Fleet, and very nice it is, but I thought the teal would be lovely. So I was pretty gratified last night to discover, while idly looking through the book, taking a little time off the knitting itself, to discover, in the picture for Flora, that the model is holding a piece of knitting-in-progress, and it's Scapa! In teal! Somebody else thought it was a good idea, too, a long long time ago.
Working hard at it -- when I can -- cause the Knitting Season's nearly over. (We don't have air conditioning. No knitting in the summer.)
In the meantime, we've got a hickory swingset going up in the tiny backyard. It comes out of a kit. I'm interested to discover that this involves holes drilled wrong at the factory, and missing screws. Do we call up the manufacturers? We do not! Sam drills new holes and finds new screws down in the workroom. This is a very different method of fixing the situation than is required when the kits I use go wrong -- that involves whining and then going on eBay to find extra skeins of long discontinued and very expensive yarns. There's some reason I didn't take up woodworking instead of textiles, but I can't remember it at the moment...
At any rate, sleep or no sleep, it's Holy Saturday, and that means Lamb Cake. Sam has magically produced the mold from the depths of the storeroom, and the oven's preheating. I'm going to drag out the mixer myself, but I think I might just use Cake Mix, emblem of shame. After that, I'm going back to bed.
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