Today's obsession is knitting! The weather is getting very cold and is expected to stay cold for the duration of the extended forecast. I am also coming to the close of my rather odd paravacation. I am a freelancer and in theory I would set my own schedule. In reality, it is the tail end of winter break, not a client is stirring, and I have finally quieted down that nagging voice that says I really should be working.
Thus, it is a perfect storm for some good quality knitting time. I am currently working on February Lady and have been for some time. My friends at the local knitting group were giving me some serious grief about how I had been knitting it since February, but decided that it could not have been quite that long. In fact, I think I can date it fairly precisely to sometime in June '09. I started it as a good travel project before a long vacation. I am a slow knitter. I knit slowly and I don't knit all the time (see previous post regarding excess of hobbies). For the most part, I have dealt with this by avoiding knitting anything on a deadline and keeping (as much as possible) to one project at a time.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, the cool projects are starting to add up. I did a gauge swatch for Spoke today and it turned out quite well. The pattern calls for Classic Elite Yarns Waterlily with size 8 needles, but it looked like Paton Classic Wool with size 7 needles would also work. I did a quick test swatch and we are good to go.
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