This is how my day started out. Nice and pretty. Within minutes it was totally cloudy and no sign of the sun anywhere. Just after lunch the rain came and it’s still raining now. If it were colder, we’d be getting quite a bit of snow. They say we may have an icy Christmas here with a wintry mix of precipitation.
Day 20 of my Advent KAL is complete so I’m back to finishing a sock. I can’t share a photo of this pair of socks as it’s part of a group project. Check back next year for that photo.
Yes, I know this photo wasn’t taken today. All those photos are still on my camera waiting for me to get around to uploading them to my laptop. This is one of my favorites from the past few days. It seems that she likes to get her silly self into most of my outside photos. I did get a second shot of the ice in our walkway without her nose in it, but, she is off in the distance. She can’t get away from me, though since I keep her on a leash even on our land. She’s a runner and a fast one. Any critter gets her attention and off she goes.
What else am I doing? Unknitting. That would be knitting backwards or visiting the Frog Pond. Those of you who don’t know knitting technical terms wouldn’t know what visiting the Frog Pond would entail. That’s the act of going RipIt, RipIt or tinking.
The Vogue Knitting sweater #18 from 1988 is being taken apart before I finished it and decided that I would never wear it. The yarn is vintage Pinguoin that I bought off eBay and don’t want to finish the sweater and end up donating it. In case you’re too young to remember, the 1980s had a whole lot of gigantic clothing and hair. I didn’t participate in the big hair craze since my hair would never qualify for that. The big, oversized clothing wasn’t in my wardrobe, either. When you’re 5’1″ and 113 pounds those giant clothes don’t work well. So, the sweater is now back into the form of a bunch of yarn balls and future use is yet to be determined.
So, I will not be participating in the #18 in 2018 challenge this year. I’ll wait until #19 in 2019 and plan better. I did finish three vintage Vogue sweaters, though, and didn’t even start or think about a current 2018 sweater.
Back to my ADVENTurer KAL Scarf. I haven’t shared much about that here since I upload those photos directly to Flickr, Instagram then onto Ravelry so the photos aren’t on my laptop for sharing here.
Enjoy!
This week I started another photography course online. The subject is learning how to take better nature photos. Since nature surrounds me I’m thinking it’s going to be fun. The instructor is one that I’ve had before so we’ve already been acquainted with each other. I had to razz him a few times because he doesn’t seem to like to acknowledge that Sony DSLR cameras are top in their field. More than one photography publication has mentioned that the alpha line of mirrorless Sonys are in the lead over and above Nikon and Canon. I even shared a link to one of those articles. Maybe I can wear him down yet.
Ever feel like you’re going round and round and it’s all your own fault?
Just this morning I joined yet another knitting KAL as if the 2018 Temperature Blanket wasn’t enough. Then, I have to remember the 2018 Vogue Knitting challenges that I joined on Ravelry.
Did I explain the VK challenges yet? There’s the #18 in 2018 which is any project from any year that is #18 in the issue. I’m working on that one right now. I’m knitting #18 from 1988 which also covers the Any project from a year ending in 8. Then, there is the Then and Now. My Then was a cardigan from 1959 and I also finished another Then from 1988 and another from 1986, I think. I’ve got pretty much the entire challenge completed except the Now. I need to go through all four issues from this year and pick one. I’m thinking it better be an easy one at this point. To meet the requirements all I have to do is cast on and it doesn’t have to be finished by the end of December.
Then, there’s that Temperature Blanket. Yes, that’s a photo of my blanket up there. I was playing with photos for my Secrets of Better Photography course that I’m finishing. Lesson 12 was about editing photos and the assignment was to get creative if you wanted to. So, I did. Right now my blanket is on 7/18/18. I’m over halfway there. Many knitters are behind but, we don’t care. I do need to order more yellow which is for the days in the 70s, orange for the days in the 80s and some pink for the 90s. Who would have thought Michigan would have been consistently that warm. They did say on the news the other day that scientists are showing that we are averaging higher temps every year since 2013. I’m planning on a 2019 blanket to keep using this yarn so I’m thinking those higher-temp colors will be used again next year. Stay tuned for photos.
My latest KAL is from Ambah O’Brien and it’s the ADVENTurer Cowl or any of the Adventurer series patterns. I’m choosing the cowl since it’s a lot smaller than the wrap. I found a yarn to use in a short amount of time which was so surprising. I thought I’d be lost in my stash for days.
Requirement #1 is to cast on today on December 1st and stay tuned for updates from Ambah. Will do. Final photo posting can be any time before a date in February.
Susan is Knitting.... 