Project ADD

Let's just do a quick recap. Today, on the needles, I've got the following.

1. The Green Gable, and I'm at the sixth of nine decreases for the waist. I'm going down 4 stitches every three rows. This still means I have umpteen-thousand stitches to go before I'm done.

2. The Minnesota project in Silky Wool on US 2 needles. The BACK is about 6 inches from the bottom hem, which sounds great except that it's a bottom-up sweater, so when I say 6 inches from the bottom hem, I mean that I've knit for 6 inches. And that I'm making the back first.

3. John's vest, using US 0 needles (for the ribbing) and US 1 needles for the front and back. I can describe what I have as "a hem".

4. Cabled sweater. Still on sleeve #2, but front and back are not started.

Projects 1, 2 and 3 are what Cheri calls "zen knitting." I don't have to pay attention. I just work plain old stockinette and occasionally throw in a decrease. It was great to have the Green Gable with me on our excursion Saturday to the Dixie Mountain Grange Strawberry Festival, because I could knit in the car, which meant that I could knit and not count the number of stitches I still had to go. So, it's great to have all of these easy things going on, right? And they should get done quickly, because it's just relaxing and easy and I don't have to put too much thought into it.

Except that I get so bored. So so so bored.

Yes, it's easy. Yes, it's relaxing. Yes, I'm making progress (albeit very slow progress). Yes, I know that the only way to finish a project is to, you know, work on the project. But my mind wanders, and I think about this loveliness:



and I have to think of something to do with it. And I have to do the thing that I think of. Immediately.

(That's Fleece Artist Seawool, which I think is roughly a DK weight, and it's wool and seacell, which comes from seaweed, or kelp, or something like that. (Now, if you click that link you'll get to a site that purports the benefits of wearing seacell. The minerals from the sea get into the seaweed (or kelp or what have you) and then those minerals get spun into the fiber, and simply by WEARING the fiber, you absorb the minerals from the sea. You'll notice that they say nothing about absorbing the toxic waste and oil from Exxon Valdez that's also in the sea. This is because seaweed can differentiate between the good stuff and the bad stuff, and it only absorbs the good stuff. Because plants are smart like that, and have our best interests at heart. You've been warned.) )

This is the softest stuff, and it's in the colors of seaweed, which is, I think, why I liked it so much. (Also the brown. I love me some brown yarn.) After many false starts (which I'm calling "swatches" even though I intended them to work out), I've decided on the main stitch pattern, and I've done about 5 repeats of the motif so far. Yesterday was Day of Stupid Movies, and as we watched Caddyshack and Animal House, I got a lot of non-boring knitting done. I stopped it with the Seawool every pattern repeat to do some rounds on the Green Gable, which made working with the Seawool like winning a prize.

It's amazingly soft. You wouldn't even know about all the wonderful non-toxins that it absorbed from the sea...that's just an amazing bonus.

OH! And if you asked for the turtle hat pattern, I haven't forgotten and I'm not ignoring you. It's coming.