You have no idea how much of a relief it is to be done. Sunday and Monday were spent with my head down and my arse up getting the finishing touches on my 50 hour project, the bibliography and the classroom presentation that I did last year which had to be typed up since no one in their right mind would try to read my writing. I finished it just at supper time last night and Pops came out to my house and helped me pack up a huge box with 3 fat binders. It's gone... I took it to the post office first thing this morning.
I promptly came home and put my feet up because I haven't had a day to myself with absolutely nothing to do for ages. Then I got bored.... so I had to do something.... I started a new knitting project... it may not be done til 2015 but there it is... there's new knitting on the go.
Socks....
They looked like this in the end....
Yup I am pretty pleased over all. They do look pretty smashing. I can't figure out what all the fuss was about... why was I so scared of turning heals? If I can knit these suckers... hell, I can knit any socks! But that's it for the level 5 50 hour project....
So what project did I start today you ask?
Well it all began when I didn't like a shawl that I started to knit last year with this stuff...
Do you remember this stuff... It's called Optim. It is a highly processed merino wool that feels like and looks like silk. Mine has a little Tencel in it too.... very pretty. When I finished spinning it, I started knitting a shawl with a pattern that I had never tried before... it didn't work. Actually that's not true... it did work... but it just didn't look right. Somehow the delicate little fans that were part of the pattern disappeared into oblivion. So in frustration I raveled the whole thing out and set it aside for a rainy day (it's a rainy day) when I had nothing to do (I was twiddling my thumb). I pulled out my patterns and got a bloody brilliant idea. But I'm not telling you.... I can hear the anticipation in you all now! Suffice it to say that it is a shawl....and it is for me..... by the way the socks are for my mother for Christmas..... I think. I think she was hinting that she liked them... Anyway, the shawl... I'm looking forward to getting it done... well at least more done.
Now that I have time again I am thinking of the thousands of things to do.... there's the garden... the bedding plants and the vegetables. There's house work... like cleaning the steps which would turn your stomach... and deciding what to do about the flooring... and then there are the wood burned ceiling tiles in the sun room of which I need to do some more. Then I need to put away all the piles of level 5 fibres that are kicking around all over the place. Of course there's weaving to do for the Shadow weave project.... but we won't go there right now... that's a scarey one. The deck needs to be cleaned off....and at the rate the grass is growing I expect before too long I will be pushing a mower around. There are alpacas to shear if it would only stop raining.... and poop to shovel in the barn yard. (Shoveling the poop you will notice is the last thing on the list... that's because somehow that doesn't excite me too much!)
The sky's the limit when you have your work done..... or I could just get back to the level 3 right away.... hmm...
Signing off for tonight... to go and watch the rain drip from the eves... cause if there's one thing I'm not going to do tonight it's work....
2 comments:
What, you are scared of your loom? Has it been talking to you or kicking you or what? Be a lover, not a hater.
The socks are just gorgeous, Frankie. No wonder your mother was looking interested!
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