Knitting: Well, this picture might look a little familiar. Sure, the socks are a little longer, and the hat brim is a bit further advanced than it was two weeks ago … it’s just, you know, been ripped out and reknit since! The important thing is, after letting it sit for a few days, I got my Constellate re-cast on, and I’m glad that I went ahead and restarted it. The twisted rib is just so pretty … I would have been sad whenever I looked at my brim and knew that the rib * should * have been twisted. And, ahem, I’m almost back to the start of the hat’s patterning — I’d made it two repeats in before I ripped it all back last week! Mr. N’s Smooth Operators are growing (as is the yarn’s pooling!) It’s time to put the yarn in for the afterthought heel — I might even have them done for him before our February visit!
Reading: I still haven’t been reading (for pleasure, I should say! I do lots of reading for work), and I want to change that. I just need to make myself stop knitting a little earlier in the evening and get in bed before before I’m too tired to read! But I had a knitting query yesterday about which I knew Elizabeth Zimmerman would have something to say. So I pulled out my trusty copy of Knitting Workshop. Sure enough, EZ had some instructions – slightly terse, but encouraging me to be courageous and move boldly forward — on a question I had about different yoke constructions. And it also meant I could read over the lovely inscription my mom wrote when she gave me the book — and wish we weren’t several states apart, but instead could be sat knitting together!
Hopefully, next week I’ll have some new knitting or reading to share. Til then, pop on over to the original Yarnalong post to see what others are working on, and tell me what you’re up to in the comments if you’re so inclined!
fiber and sustenance 
I love reading EZ-many times just for her writing alone.
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Agreed! She’s brilliant and very empowering 😀
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Oh, I love those yarn colorways! So pretty!
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Thanks for your kind words Emily, and for stopping by!
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Wonderful color changes on your socks! I know this struggle between knitting and reading, I also have to make a clear “schedule” for it 🙂
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Thanks, Alina! Yes, exactly! I’ve just picked up a history of knitting — so, you know, ways to merge the two things 😉
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Sometimes pooling is awful, but I think it looks like fun pattern on those socks!
You’ve got to love Elizabeth. She is the voice of knitting reason.
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Thank you! For these, I’ve accepted the pooling — and I don’t mind how it’s happening that much (and the recipient likes it – so that’s what matters!)
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i really like the way the color is pooling! and that hat pattern is calling to me..
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Thanks, Martha! Once you get past the long brim, the pattern is one of those just one more row patterns! The “dips” that make up the texture are really fun to knit!
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Working on my percentage sweater. Twisted rib can be so frustrating but it is so pretty!
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I know! Why is it * so * much slower than average ribbing! Hope your percentage sweater is going well!!!
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I find most pooling annoying, but this pattern is rather interesting, sort of celestial…
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Thanks, Laura!
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