Time Flies But I Wouldn't Say I'm Having Fun

Suddenly this morning I realized that day after tomorrow is my birthday, which means it is also my one-year blog anniversary. Then I realized I couldn't remember how many days it was since I'd last posted. That felt odd, which made me feel a bit better as I like to think of myself as a regular blogger.

I also like to think of myself as a regular knitter. My husband and relatives think of me that way, too. But today, when I had only a few things I needed to get done and they all happened at home, I still got no knitting done. So here I am with no knitting to post and not even any non-knitting filler photos ready to go.

Part of this lack of knitting happened because my sweater is at a difficult point where I need to figure out what I'm doing and if I have my front braided cable centered properly or if I need to re-cast-on two-hundred-and-something stitches. I don't even remember how many stitches and I'm the one who figured out how many since it's an Elizabeth Zimmerman EPS sweater.

I've just needed some down time to recover mentally and physically from the household moving we just did before I need to start packing up another house. We have an island place here, which we put up for sale while the selling was still good in this area. During the time we were in California consolidating my mom's house and our place there into a new place, the island place sold.

We have exactly 7 weeks from today before the sale closes. I have about a week of catch-up appointments and chores here in the city before we plan to stay at the island place for long stretches while we sort out a dozen years of pixies stashing things in the closets and us using it to store the things we only need occasionally. I'll want knitting projects to keep me from pushing myself to do too much at one time and make me sit for a while and unwind.

Sometime during this week I'll get the sweater start figured out and have a nice stretch of stockinette in the round with a single 17 stitch/16 row braided cable on which to work. I'll also get the little Casbah scarf done, except maybe for deciding on a button and how I'm going to position a loop for it. (Have I explained that plan?) Then I'll need a new dead-simple project for those my-brain-no-longer-works nights I expect to have many of. I have a drawer or two full of nice yarns in scarf/small shawl amounts from which to choose.

Any good suggestions? Maybe I should do another of my Pinnate Shoulder Shawls now that the pattern's been linked on Ravelry and I've gotten a question or two on it which I couldn't remember the answers to right off. I mean, I only knit about six of them so far. Except one of those involved beads and hasn't been finished. I don't think beads would be a good plan for this month.

And I guess I'd better figure out a Bloggiversary plan in the next day or two, also.

Comments

[margene]

You have been running like crazy and it's good to realize you need a break. Here's wishing you a good birthday and some quiet time to enjoy it!!

[RobinH]

Happy birthday!

And for my last 'I need a simple project I can carry around', I was very happy with knitting scrap yarn into blocks (to eventually do stuff with). Or if you have ideas for things that will be gifts.. I'm starting to think about stocking up (so to speak) on sock yarn and getting a jump on Christmas knitting. (That doesn't mean I'll actually do it, but at least I'll hopefully have A Plan. I like plans.)

[ashpags]

I'm a firm believer in garter stitch for fried brains! But a Pinnate Shoulder Shawl would be a good remedy, too. What kind of questions are people asking about it? Since I'm in the middle of one right now (almost finished, actually!) if I can provide some insight, I'm happy to help. Good luck getting everything cleaned out. That's a killer job, but I'm sure you can do it! =)

[Birdsong]

Happy Birthday tomorrow! It really sounds as if your plate is full, and you didn't even mention how you will feel letting go of your island home on such short notice... I will be thinking kindly thoughts that involve sun, feet up, and knitting in between all that scurrying about. I do suggest easy, mindless knitting for now....

[Dorothy]

Happy Birthday and blogiversary!

Have you gotten far on the body of the sweater? I know what you mean, I need a completely alert and focused mind to be able to count and calculate that sort of thing.

[Ann Cook]

Happy Birthday! We need to get in touch about Monday if the trip to hear to Harlot is on? I'm up for it, just lost your contact info-except here. Ann