Weeknote #37
And a Happy New Year to you!
We’ve spent the last week painting our spare bedroom which is looking fabulous! Deciding to do a feature wall in there was certainly a choice for our first painting job but, with a few touch ups with a tiny brush at the edges, it’s worked out really well.
I’m finally properly into my new 2024 diary/planner which is exciting but it still hasn’t quite sunk in that we’re into a new year again. This is firmly mid-20s territory in my mind!
Since it was only a 4 day work week, I got a lot of knitting done at the start and have now joined on day 8 of my advent yarn to my Jane Eyre jumper, I’ve folded the brim and started working the body of my Oslo hat, and I’ve reached a stumbling block with my bougie sweater. The bougie sweater was always going to be a tight squeeze for getting a whole jumper out of the two skeins of Manos del Uraguay Alegría that I had but, given my tighter gauge, I had no hope of winning the yarn chicken and so I ordered another skein from Wool Bath which I’ll alternate rows with my remaining yarn to blend in a little - although I have discovered that different skeins of that yarn, even from the same dye lot, are vastly different. Following a try-on, I’ve found the sleeves far too short too so I’ll be ripping the ribbing out of them and making them another inch or two longer.
I also ordered some new Chiaogoo Twist needles and a new cable plus a couple of accessories from the Oxford Yarn Store - I’ve been loving these metal lace tips and want to use them for Nick’s new Moby Sweater plus I’d like to try them for sock knitting. Now they’ve arrived, I can start on the gauge swatch for the Moby Sweater this weekend.
With only 7 weeks left in my current job, I’m looking forward to a couple of weeks off at the end of February and already starting to plan what knitting and sewing projects I can have a go at during that time. We’ll be taking a few days for a holiday but I’ll no doubt still find plenty of time to sew and knitting is famously portable! Current plans are to have another go at an 1860’s corset since I’ve got a new pattern from RedThreaded to try and possibly to start making my wedding guest dress for this year which seems to have started to become a tradition.
