Greetings Gentle Unravelers and Happy November!
If you are planning on any holiday gift knitting… the clock is ticking!
I have a tiny bit of gift knitting that I will kick off on Friday with a class with the Queen of Gnomery… the one and only Sarah Schira! I am excited to do a bit of Gnome Knitting with her. My plan for the lovely little bundle of skeins above is to make a few Gnome Ornaments to hang! I have not yet knit worsted weight gnomes, so I am looking forward to it!
Because I put the kibosh on starting any new projects last week, of course… I cast on something new! Ha! Yes, I began the tree for my Gnome Choir! This new project happened when I really looked at my socks and realized I have made a rather glaring error. Yes… the socks are two different lengths. Sigh. I am not unraveling the sock only to begin again… and currently I am debating to just wear them this way or do a little surgery and knit the missing repeats, the border, and the cuff… Sigh. Last week I was very much feeling like mosaic knitting was my nemesis and I was down for the count… so my wrap has been in a bit of time out while I find my Mosaic Mojo once again.
Each of these things is not like the other…
Thanks to those odious socks, I indulged in a bit of self-pity and ordered the yarn for this sweater… I am eagerly awaiting its arrival!
I also have gotten a couple more appliqué squares done… I found the meditation of hand stitching the perfect balm… bonus points for having better lighting at home so night time stitching could happen!
The reading this week has been so delightful! I finished The Running Grave… book 7 in the Cormoran Strike series. It was good… so good! And it did not feel like a 34+ hour listen… at all! So yeah… so good!
I also, thankfully, finished The Underground Library… no where near as good and I am glad to be done with it. It was not my worst book all year, but it is in the running!
My current reads though are making up for that… I am just over half way in Geraldine Brooks’ novel: Horse and I had forgotten what a delightful writer she is!
At night I am reading a new novel by Téa Obreht, The Morningside. It started out a bit slowly as I settled in, but once I did the reading has been so good! I am about halfway through this as well!
But, what about you? Are you on the Gift Knitting Bandwagon? If you are let me know so we can cheer ourselves on!
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Oh dear, so sorry about the mosaic socks! I might be tempted to just wear them the way they are (after all, pants will cover the top!!). Archetype is a gorgeous sweater – can’t wait to see what color yours will be. And your reading looks good too (I loved Horse). I’ve been slow on all counts due to work, but am now contemplating some fast (hopefully) Christmas knitting. We shall see…..
Once you try the socks on you’ll know whether you can live with them the way they are. It would be heartbreaking if after all the work you’ve put into them just to have them sit in the drawer because you can’t face altering them.
And look at all those lovely cables on the cardigan you’re planning to knit. Definitely my kind of garment!
I’m sorry about your socks; I know I would feel the difference when I wore them and it would drive me nuts. But they can sit in time-out while you knit adorable gnomes and beautiful Archetype. (That is one gorgeous sweater!) I guess I have kind of fallen into some gift knitting because some sparkly yarn caught my eye. It remains to be seen whether I make more than one seed-stitch cowl!
Ugh, sorry about the socks! I have a pair like that, but I just left them as they were and wore them as is, and I was the only one who knew the difference. Of course, mine weren’t nearly as involved as yours, and you may not be able to live with it!
The sweater you are planning is absolutely gorgeous! I also want to knit a heavily cabled sweater this fall/winter and even have a pattern and yarn ready for it. Maybe we need a casual knitalong to keep us going?
Y’know . . . that Pressed Flower design was my nemesis last year as I knit the cardigan, too. It’s deceptively simple — so simple that you fly along AS IF you’re doing everything just right, only to discover a stupid error 3 rows back. Nem.e.sis. So I get why you would put it away and move on to greener pastures. (And that sweater is a STUNNER!) I really liked The Morningside, too — although it was definitely odd! Happy knitting (and reading) this week, Kat.
I know that moment well – I’m not going to cast on OH WAIT I just did ????
I’m working on my mitts but have also started a third Wingspan, a requested Christmas gift, so plenty to keep me busy.
Your socks are lovely 🙂 I am knee deep in gnome knitting and at times it’s slow going but it is steady entertainment for me 🙂
Could you knit 2 more socks – one to match each of the existing? 2 pairs of socks that now match!
I’m usually Miss Must-Be-Perfect, but I’m on the wear them the way they are bandwagon. If it really, REALLY bothers you, you can always fix it up later. You know ………..AFTER the Christmas knitting is all finished.
As often as I rip things back to correct mistakes, I would just wear those socks as they are unless the shorter cuff falls down around your ankle. I very much understand that I’m not going to cast on and then whoops, a new project is on the needles. The gnome class sounds like fun – do keep us posted. I also just picked up Horse. It was the dickens to get it from the library and a good friend just offered me the loan of her copy.
Oh no what a pain, so sorry about the socks. You do know you will unravel them don’t you. The yarn in your first picture looks amazing,lovely colours. I don’t do Christmas knitting, much prefer to gift as and when, less pressure on me.
I’m taking that gnome class on Friday, too! And I just saw Snow Matter What on Ravelry with yarn available from Knitterly Things so I’m very tempted to add that to my list as well. I loved Horse, so good. I just finished Wellness and it’s right up there with the best books I’ve ever read.
Dang, I should have signed up for that class! Weekday classes are tough, but I forgot that they record them. Oh well. I hope you have fun & learn some tricks!