Weekending!?

Have you heard of this great idea?  A quick Monday morning recap of the weekend in list or photo form or whatever you want.  Poetry?  Haiku?  Headline format?  It's great to have a jumping off focus when blogging regularly.  A few years ago I committed to blogging every day for a year and during that time I used specific themes for different days so that each week I wouldn't have to come up with an entire idea for a blog post, just something to fit the focus for that day.  Blue Monday used to be the jumping off point for the beginning of the week and this post fits that as well.  Having committed to blogging at least 135 days this year, having some theme days will certainly keep me going.

So this is an idea swiped from Margene who got the idea from Carole who points back to the originator, the author of The Habit of Being.

• Currently free of any contractual or commitment knitting, my fiber pursuits were relaxed and somewhat self-indulgent.
• Friday saw the drop spindles come out from hiding and instead of packing my wheel up to go to spinning group, I lugged (ha!  because there is so much lugging with drop spindles!) them with me and actually used them!
• I had brought knitting as well and really thought that I would do that, but suddenly became inspired to spin some fiber that has long been in the works.
• I'm very close to the end, then more plying and then KNITTING!
• I hope I'm creating some sustained momentum.
• Saturday saw me at my favorite quilt shop and lunching with Kim. 
• Margene said it, weekends spent with grrrlfriends......
• Then there was swatching and thinking about swatching.
• This is a post in itself, but I've decided that the swatch gets a bad rap in general, being accused of lying and all that.
• I am of the opinion that the swatches are tellers of truth and that the knitters are lying to the swatches, but more about that on another day.
• On to the swatches!

• Madelinetosh Tosh Sock in Baltic.  Wish I could capture the color better, it is gorgeous.
• Candelia (ravelry link) is the pattern I am swatching that yarn for, a great little sweater for spring and cool summer nights. 
• Yes, I am looking forward to those.

• The Fibre Company's Road To China Light, a blend of alpaca, camel, cashmere and silk.
• In Sapphire.
• This is a yarn to live for to knit.
• I know, forget I typed that last sentence.
• Touching that yarn removes all conscious thought from my head and sends me into a wordless tactile bliss.
• I'm looking forward to knitting that yarn into another of Winged Knits patterns, Lavaliere.
• Cecily Glowick MacDonald of Winged Knits is having a pattern sale.
• Oh, I may have stopped by that sale this weekend as well.

 

• There wasn't only planning, I actually cast on for Candelia!
• Twice, because I swatched, was happy with the second needle size, cast on, and didn't get the same gauge as my swatch.
• It was not the swatch it was me.
• I have a tendency to knit tighter after casting on.
• I lie to my swatches.
• I also spent a lot of time this weekend photographing and then trying to get the colors of these yarns closer to what they are in real life.
• I have failed miserably so you will just have to trust me when I say they are stunning.

2011.  Eight.  $33.75.  Well, would you looky there.  A post about knitting on a knitting blog.  THIS knitting blog.  What did you do this weekend?

Comments

[Kim]

I was happy to spend some of my weekend with you!!

[margene]

I spun on a spindle, too! Even packed it up in a bag so I can take it to the garden and watch Smith work (if we ever get a sustained spring).
The colors looks stunning even if the pictures aren't spot on.

[Sally]

This weekend was a birthday celebration for our grown daughter and church, of course. Thanks for sharing your blues.

Happy Blue Monday, Teresa.

[Manise]

This weekend was spent enjoying the sun and watching the snow melt, finally finishing my Turn A Square hat, dinner with family, church, and coffee with a close friend I'd not seen in a long time. I may have also stopped by my LYS for yet another circular I don't have to start on my Baby Chalice Blanket. I'm loving your blue swatches. I have the beautiful Baltic in my stash too. :-)

[Carole]

I think you've got a point about gauge swatches. It's so nice to have you blogging more frequently.

[Renee]

Took a trip to the quilt shop and lunch out with a grilfriend too! Knit on a shawl and basically puttered around the house doing laundry and looking busy...
What's with those lying swatches anyway?! met more than my share of them, so must be moi

[Laurie]

That road to china stuff is pure knitting crack.