lulubeans

au revoir, meret

i have decided that maybe i ought to document all the stuff that gets sent to the frog pond.
maybe it will be a lesson in accountability.  maybe i will become the more responsible, less fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants knitter that i yearn to be if i have to remember the poorly planned, the never-swatched, and the boredom inducing.

meret, actually, was none of these things.  despite its eventual purple pie man unfortunateness, meret was a good knit.  a fast knit.  a lovely, well written (and free!) pattern.  i just could not get gauge on that sucker.  and i called it "close enough".  and it's giant.  the photo doesn't really show just how oversized it is. 

meret has lived a brief but happy life, sometimes as a sort of seat cushion for a child's rocking chair, sometimes as a sort of makeshift handbag (good for hauling playmobil toys from place to place) and sometimes as a sleeping bag for a goat. 

so, farewell, meret. it wasn't your fault.  may you enjoy a greater sense of purpose in your next incarnation, as a soaker for the baby's bum.

FO: DROPS baby cardigan

pattern: DROPS design b14-27 jacket (rav link)

yarn:  lulubeans handpainted sock (superwash merino) in a deep dark cocoa and in a melon-y conch shell color.

needles: US #2 addi turbos

modifications: i changed up the striping sequence a little bit so that all my short rows were brown.  i wanted more brown than pink, and i reasoned that this was the way to do it.  as i was knitting, i wasn't too sure if i liked the resulted broad pink stripe around the neck, but know that it's all said and done, i like it.


thoughts:  this kind of languished on the needles for a solid month or so.  i had been thinking baby sweater!  quick!  but the actual going was pretty slow.  i loved the construction (sideways + short rows= love) and i adore the final product.  it's simple but so feminine, and girlish without being ruffle-y and frou-frou.  it's got a total norwegian elfkin quality to it, and hence i think it fits my wee girl to a T.

soft focus

i desperately need to order wool. i haven't spun a thing since prior to greta's birth! there hasn't been much dyeing going on here either. a couple skeins of yarn, that's about it. i miss it and have been feeling very inspired lately, in so many ways. we talk a lot about how caring for such new life takes so much creativity + energy (and it does!) but, at least on the good days, i'm getting just as much back. there's a constant internal buzz, there are things that i want to make, lots. (bees in my bonnet?)
now if only i could find a way to manipulate time, or function with less sleep, i could really get a lot done.
i do have some knitting to show. maybe later today?