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Finally, Flax

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Y’all must be tired of this now — the endless swatches, the yarn agony, the inability to meet gauge after washing a million swatches — it’s okay, y’all can tell me the truth.  I know you want to say “just start already!!!”   I feel exactly the same way and now, beginning is finally here.   😀

I should have started this sweater 3.5 weeks ago since it’s my Harry Potter Knitting & Crochet House Cup project.  Yeah … I signed myself up for that.  The thing is, the submission date for completion is July 31st.   You got it!  I have 37 days to knit like the wind and finish this sweater.  Flax … the bane of my sweater making existence.   But you’re so pretty … I can’t break up with you even after this kind of swatching abuse.  😛    It didn’t help that my surgery recuperation did NOT turn out the way I thought it would so I lost more time than I expected.  Le sigh.

Distract yourselves from my crazy “I’mgonnadothisinamonth” talk by the pretty shades (magenta and pacific) of Cascade 220.  Pray for me!  And yourselves, cause this is all I’ll be taking about crafting wise for the next 37 days.  Yeah … get use to it!  😀

Flax Finally

At least I have the yarn caked.  Whose going to give me points for that?  😛

WIP Wednesday

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By the time you see this post, I would have finished playing catch up with my Mood Blanket.  I have four more rounds to add to the below before I’m caught up.  The rounds are really getting long now but I’ve been powering through while watching a variety of BBC & HBO T.V. series.  The long rounds seem to go faster while I watch T.V. — go figure since I’m not really a T.V. watcher.  My goal is to make this my Sunday afternoon project.  Doing one round every Sunday until the end shouldn’t be too tough.  Although I have 29 more rounds to go, I have to say so far — it’s beautiful!  I keep staring at it; it’s actually kinda mesmerizing.  LOLOL!  But I have not been mesmerized to the point where it’s stopping me from casting on something else.   😀

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I’ve  cast on the Hitchhiker pattern from Martina Behm.  My love for this designer knows no bounds … well for her and Erika Knight, but I’ll talk about that another time.   😀   The Hitchhiker is a pattern that I’ve wanted to make for a long time but just never did … well … until now.  I’m using KnitPicks new line — Hawthorne in Nob Hill.  The pattern is easy enough for a newbie, but if you’re not careful, it’s easy to lose track of where you are row wise.   Good thing I have my trusty Knit Tink row counting app on my Android phone to keep me on track.

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So far so good; I really like how this hand-painted line is working up.  I’m really not a fan of hand painted yarn but this coupling — the Hitchhiker pattern and Hawthorne Nob Hill — has turned out to be awesome so far.   There are subtle changes in the purple/lilac theme with some cream nicely interspersed throughout.  So far, the pooling in this yarn is working out just fine — nice and even like I like it.  Not crazy like some hand-painted yarns can get sometimes.  I hope it stays this way.

I’m definitely having a great time working on these two projects.  What are you working on that’s giving you the happies?  😀

Linking with Tami and WIP Wednesday meme.