So I returned to work on Monday and have spent the last few days spending 8 hours at work and then 8 hours resting at home. Paul has been fantastic making sure all my needs are being met here at home. However, I have not had enough energy at the end of the day to write here, until today.
Knitting nirvana has not and will not materialize in the wistful way I imagined. So now that I have that behind me I can spend efforts thinking about more realistic things. This leads me to one decision. I plan to frog the wall flower because the connections between the colour changes are not good enough. What I will do is knit the entire thing in white and then go back and double stitch the flower in black. The double stitch approach is much more controlled and will yield a more professional looking finished product. Although I have yet acted on the decision, I feel as if this change in technique is the way to go. (There is often a rather obvious reason why I'm not finishing a WIP, it sometimes takes me a while to notice the obvious, though.)
Additionally, I've started a new and different baby sweater. It is call
Daisy and if you click on the link you'll see it is a cardigan with three buttons and can include a hood. (When I make my next Daisy I'll add the hood.) If you look closely at the free pattern on the
link, you'll note it is a Stephanie Pearl-McPhee design. The body is knit in one piece so there's no need to seam it along the sides. I'm knitting my version with a cotton yarn named Seedling by Classic Elite Yarns. Here's what I have so far.
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| A view of the right armhole - do you like the pooling effect? |
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| A view of the front with the right side already complete - again note the pooling of the variegated yarn. |
I plan to add the embroidered daisies you see on the second photo on the
pattern, the white hooded sweater. My daisies will be yellow, I think, and I'll use yellow buttons as well. Daisy is a simple stockinette design, but it has been just the right selection to knit this week.
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