green.girl knitting: commentary
22 may 2011 a small breath
it is barely recognizable as spring around here.
i should be grateful the weather has been so cold and gray; i've been buried under a mountain of work and it is much harder to keep the nose to the grindstone when the sun is shining and the day is calling me to skip school/work/real world. but, truly, it is getting old, even for someone who suffers a sort of reverse SAD, going a bit crazy when it is too sunny for too long. we went to brunch for jim's birthday and this was our monochromatic view:
how many shades of gray are in that picture? more than in the lovely skein of wollmeise i bought this month, but not by much. it is called maus jung and i will make myself a mousie little shawl at some point, in honor of the spring that never arrived.
i stole a few minutes here and there, usually feeling guilty about it, to finish the knitting of the baby sweater. i decided to not knit the eyelet pattern on the arms and am happy with that decision -- it is busy enough as is. and now i must decide whether to make it even busier: do i use colored buttons or white? or clear? and if colored, a single color or a set of colors matching the sweater colors? it is draped upon the space heater in front of me [which i have yet to put away as there have still been heater worthy nights this month; see above] so i can look at it and contemplate the possibilities. must make a decision soon...
whilst avoiding yet more work that threatens to bury me, i cast on and knit the first two rows of the shawl i am making for the small child's fifth grade teacher. s picked out the color and the pattern but has graciously allowed that i can do the knitting. i have under a month but should be able to make use of the upcoming three-day weekend to put a good dent in it.
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