A Sense of Accomplishment

Finished things, finished things! First off the needles, in time for my trip, was this full rainbow Loving Color. Because one of my very limited use super powers is knowing exactly how far I can get with the available yarn, I determined for completely inexplicable and intuitive reasons that if I made each stripe section one stripe set narrower then that would account for the increases as I went down and I'd have enough yarn to do the whole thing, and I was completely correct. All but the purple is Blue Sky Woolstock Light, but they didn't have a purple that spoke to me so I grabbed a pretty SpinCycle for that and the texture difference isn't too disruptive - if anything, because it fell at both ends, it's stabilizing. It was also a perfect early spring travel garment, because I was able to wear it as a scarf with a jacket in the cool mornings and then pull it over my shoulders later to transition from jacket to t-shirt temperatures.

I also finally finished this Pi'ksii sweater that I started (the first time) last October. I finished the yoke once and pulled it out because the Shibui Silk Cloud I was using for the birds really needed to be held triple rather than double, and the rest of time was spent slogging through a whole lot of brown stockinette on size four needles. But it's finished! And I like how it fits! And it's a lovely light sweater that I really could have gotten lots of wear out of had I finished it a month ago, but thankfully sweaters don't expire so it will be in my drawer waiting for me when I can actually wear it.

Having finished all of my stashed hibernation yarn (not my complete stash, but the yarn I had bought or set aside to use up over the winter) I went to Yarn Kandy to get yarn for my next project and ended up with that and also a shop sample to make. I'm doing the shop sample first, and then I'll get to start on a lovely purple cardigan for myself that I'm really looking forward to wearing.

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