For the last few days I've been working monogamously on my July Paper Bag Project: Gladys in Painted Fleece Merino/Silk/Cashmere in beautiful tonal greens. The yarn is knitting up beautifully - no pooling just lots of interesting variegations and subtle contrasts. The pattern is beautiful too but goodness, that's a lot of seed stitch!
My Afshari socks haven't been ignored. I have knit the cuff of the second sock and started on the plain knitting of the leg. Well I had to, didn't I? Those 2.25mm HiyaHiya sharps were the needles I wanted for the Gladys socks. The rest of Afshari is plain vanilla so it'll be just the thing to knit for the next couple of evenings.
I learned a new trick this week! I discovered that I could take a photo of the charts for Afshari from the pattern book on my iPad - Silk Road Socks - and then share into iBooks as a PDF in order to import from there into KnitCompanion. I'm the first to admit that KnitCompanion has entirely spoiled me for knitting from books or printed patterns; it's just so much easier to keep my place in charts on my iPad. Being able to bring the charts in without needing to fire up the desktop computer, scan the pages and so on? Game changer!!
This week might be quite a productive week knitting-wise. We are finally getting rain which is a relief. We've had several weeks without and things have been dry as a bone. We ran out of water in our rain barrels ages ago so we've been hauling buckets of water from the Lake to water my raised planting beds. The cilantro has bolted, the radishes have bolted, the beans are looking leathery, the tomatoes have withered and none of the seeds I planted have germinated. Too hot. Too dry. Northern Ontario has a number of ongoing wildfires and we've been under complete fire bans in Haldimand County and all the neighbouring counties. The forecast is for rain on and on off for the next few days so hurray for that. I hope Northern Ontario gets some relief soon too!
On Wednesday we'll be home all day without power while we have a whole-home generator installed. The hydro around here is all delivered by overhead power lines and we are very vulnerable to power failures due to downed trees and branches from storms. Given that our community is sooo small, we aren't a priority for the utility company when they are addressing outages... the crews are sent to larger centres with larger numbers of subscribers first. So natural gas generators are commonplace around here; better safe than sorry. No doubt the weather is likely to be more extreme with climate change de-stabilising the jet stream.
So the plan for this week is to finish Afshari then work on Gladys. I'm resisting the urge to cast on scrappy socks until these two projects are done. Besides, August is coming fast and I'll have another Paper Bag to open and another sock project to start. Time to get some projects on the list done!
2018 Paper Bag Project - July, August, September, October, November and December
Twisted Flower Socks - using Hikoo CoBaSi yarn in Egyptian Blue
Feny Socks - using Lang Jawoll Superwash in turquoise and chocolate
Double Heelix Socks - using leftovers from Feny Socks
Pattern TBD - using unknown variegated red yarn
Diamondback Socks - using Songbird Fibers Sock in Ruby Throated Hummingbird
Gladys - using Painted Fleece in Fundip #1 Greens
Full Skeins from stash
Somewhere Socks - using Mountain Colour mini set
Pairfect Socks - using Regia Pairfect
Mood - using unknown variegated blue yarn
Kazak - using unknown tonal purple yarn
Harris Tweed Socks - using Wollemeise self-striping green/gold/red yarn
Large (more than 50 grams) and Small (less than 50 grams) scraps from stash
Afshari - Dye-Version Stretch Bamboo Sock yarn in Peach
Salor - in various tan, orange and brown small scraps
Vanilla Bean Striped Socks - in various colourful small scraps
Squircle Socks - in various colourful scraps plus something neutral from large scraps
Escape Reality Socks - in various colourful scraps plus something neutral from large scraps
Bill Huggins - in various scraps
Mosaic Marbles socks - using Langwoll Magic Dégradé scraps with black (or white)
Checkbox Socks - using large scraps
Stash Buster Spiral Socks - using various scraps in green?
Hearty Stripey Socks - using various scraps
11 comments:
Gladys is looking lovely in that yarn. It's finally raining here so I think it's the perfect day to just sit and knit socks!
Whoa, that IS a lot of seed stitch. But the Gladys are beautiful socks. The color of the yarn is perfect for that pattern.
The green yarn in the Gladys socks looks really lovely knit up but I'm not sure I'd like all that seed stitch on the smaller needles! I hope the work on Wednesday won't disturb you too much but it will be lovely I'm sure not to be so reliant on the power lines being in a smaller community. Enjoy your knitting plans this week.
Thanks for the hint about KnitCompanion, I just installed it and I'm trying to figure out how it works now. Happy sock knitting and I'll do a little rain dance for you.
LOve those socks and the yarn they rode in on! LOL! A whole house generator...I need one of those but they are pricey. I do have a backup plan but my biggest concern is my sump pump in the basement. I found one that will run on city water if the power goes out so that is next....then I will think about the big G. Good for you guys....you'll be toasty and have lights regardless and maybe AC too? I could do without heat easier than the AC....it is very hot down here! With the AC I can knit all year long and only felt my wool when I chose to...ha! Ha! Have a great week!
I like that green and the texture you're knitting! You are the Queen of socks.
That is a beautiful color for Gladys!
We are considering a whole-home generator as well. I don't know whether we will be able to swing it this year, but it is definitely "in the plan".
Oh Gladys are beautiful, I love the colour. Hope the installation goes well.
The queen of socks strikes again, Gladys looks beautiful. What a delicate-looking pattern, and lovely colour too.
I love that yarn color for the Gladys...what a beautiful sock (I had a student named Gladys and she was beautiful too, with super long black hair and a great smile)
I had lost my sock mojo, but recently joined a Facebook sock group and that has helped...
I love the yarn colour for Gladys, they are going to be so gorgeous! As for the heat, we did have some rain last weekend, and a few drops more on Monday, but it didn't do much good, all it did was raise humidity to an almost unbearable level. This summer sure is a difficult one for most parts of the world.
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