So this is supposed to be, at least in part, a knitting blog. My apologies for not writing about my knitting much of late. I’ve been thinking about knitting a bit and finally starting to do some knitting again. But I have a confession to make: I’ve started on a new project.
I’m knitting a new sweater out of some stash yarn. It’s just going to be a teal (big surprise) pullover with plain knitting. I want to do an EPS-style raglan pullover when I’m at knitting camp this year, and I thought it would be good to get started on that. I have about 5 inches done, and it’s my intention to get the body and the sleeves to the underarm, and maybe do a little bit of the yoke before my camp at the end of July. I’m going slowly, but I seem to be able to make time to regularly work on this project. That’s a good thing.
There’s not much more to talk about there. I think, at least in part, my issue was that the knitting I was trying to concentrate on was the kind of knitting that needed a lot of sustained attention, in a global sense. I could pick it up for a few moments here and there, but if I wasn’t picking it up pretty regularly, the rhythm and energy behind the project faded away. And since I was trying to not divide my knitting energy between multiple projects, I pretty much stopped knitting. While the more complicated project, the Latvian Dreaming project is something that I want to continue to do in the future, it’s not working for me at this instant.
Speaking of getting back into the swing of things, I also did some spinning. Egad, I’m out of practice. I enjoyed it, but wow, I totally over-plyed the skein of yarn in question. It’s been long enough that I can’t quite remember how it was that I was plying the yarn. I might have done it with scotch tension (the plying not the spinning) rather than double drive, or it might have been a lazy-kate issue. Though I’m not discouraged enough to stop spinning, because I think I can find my mojo again, it did give me a little pause.
I think I need to do something to get a little more control over spinning and knitting time, which probably means figuring out some way to balance other projects more effectively. How do you all–who aren’t students–manage to get knitting time, particularly if you work a lot, and/or have a number of freelance-ish projects, that can suck time in a major way?