Planned Argyle

I am finally blocking my Lolo Sweet Spot strip! Wow - this gives me so much joy!!




I did run short on the last colour section, so this strip will be the start of a new afghan, as I need the same number of rows in the strips to be able to join them without fudging. Not a problem as I have many more strips I’d like to do. 

I have started on my Leo & Roxy strip. January is quite colourful and sometimes too a step sideways on a colour, but the patterning still runs through it. February is more subtle and delicate. . 

I’m off to work, so I will have to wait until later to keep making this magic happen

So Sweet

I have been powering along on my Lolo Sweet Spot Strip!! I’m just over 300 rows into a 500 row stretch. I’m not gonna lie - I’m feeling like I might be playing yarn chicken at the end. Fingers crossed.  

There are times when there is a row or two where there is no blue, so I just trust my tension and then it catches up. It’s like a creek (my granny would’ve called it a “crick”) meandering and skipping through river pebbles. This is a lovely colour to finish up with. 

I couldn’t help it though. I had wound up the Leo & Roxy  ystery club skeins and they’ve been singing an enticing siren song to me. 

I am weak. I just had to cast on and swatch, if for nothing else than to find the Sweet Spot. 

Every time I cast on a new yarn, I have a small doubting Thomas part of me that says, “This is the one Wannietta. This is the one that will defy your assertion that every indie yarn has a Sweet Spot.” January has short dye stretches and I was questioning whether this one would be That One. But I trusted my process and I could feel it starting. Kind of like The Quickening from Highlander. I don’t even know how to explain the pleasure and satiafaction that I get from seeing this magic happen!! Random, random, less random, something happening, boom!! 

So now I can go back to my Lolo strip and finish it. Yes. Resolve Wannietta, focus!! 

Where did the Week Go?

In which our knitter went back to her secular job and a week went by in a blur. 

It’s a good thing that I really do enjoy my Dairy Queen job!! No matter how crazy it gets or what challenges each day presents, I still look forward to the next day. 

I have been knitting - my Lolo Sweet Spot strip is coming along; I’m almost done the 3^rd colour section. can’t wait to join up the last colour!! 

 I wound up the first three colours of the Leo & Roxy club so that I can swatch it up for the Sweet Spot.

The only thing more exciting than working up a Sweet Spot strip is finding the next one!! Craig & I will be driving down to the Little Red Mitten for Leo & Roxy’s Birthday bash. It’s a bit of a drive, but it’ll be a nice little adventure and loads of knitting time! I’m clearly a bit taken with the L& R yarn and can’t wait to see what new colours that they have in person. 

I played with SnapChat this morning - there are some fun people working behind the scenes there!! Not gonna lie, I think I’d make a great Bearded Lady ;) and def gonna think about new piercings!!  

Tomorrow will be domestic chores, puppy loving, and knitting bliss.

Challenge

The power was out for a good part of Angus yesterday and Dairy Queen was closed. It made for an oddly disconnected feeling day. 

I grilled some burgers for dinner and whipped up a Greek salad. I knit until it was dark, accompanied by a movie on the laptop, then music fueled with my back up batteries which I charged in the car as needed. Then it was early to bed and reading on the new kobo. I slept poorly, always checking to see if the power had come back on (ceiling fans), then getting woke up when it did by the shrill beeping of the CO₂ detector. I did get some quality reading time in, which was nice. 

There were all sorts of glitches at work today due to the sudden outage, but we persisted and largely triumphed. 

I swatched last night with lolodidit everyday sock, something blue.  Her dyeing technique is proving something of a challenge to me in sussing out the Sweet Spot, but I do love a challenge. And I am quite fond of saying that if I can find a Sweet Spot in Koigu, I can find it anywhere! I think I see a hint of a pattern, but I'm uncertain. 

 

I'm going to try my hand at the Lucille colourway tonight. 

Timehop had this picture today. 

 

Mixed memories, but it makes me smile, so a win. And any picture with Amanda is a good one ❤️☺️

Good mail day

So I read the instructions on my next clue wrong and did the first set of gates with two threads instead of over two threads.  Though the piece is worked over two threads, so it was a redundant instruction that my Brian re-worked to make relevant. Yeah, that's what I'm going with.  

I liked the look, but I wasn't sure, so I also did a set with a single strand. 

 Definitely liking the heavier gate better!! 

I did give some thought to another set of gates further up in the design, and I may have to do them double-stranded as well, though they are a different colour and esthetic, so I'll have to see when I get there. I also went online and ordered more of the purple for the current gates and black for the next gates so I don't run out. 

 

So now I'm going over the 2^nd set of gates again, then moving on to the other 3 corners. 

Happy Mail day today! 

I have been following Lauren aka lolodidit on Instagram for awhile and I finally ordered!!

 

This is going to make an amazing Sweet Spot strip!!! 

I know ... that's a lot of exclamation marks, but I'm that excited!! I know my plan was to cross stitch (especially while I'm between knitting assignments), but I might have to wind and swatch.