August 24th

There won't be any saturday sky here, since I will be out under the sky on Lopez Island. Perhaps if we remember to take the camera and perhaps if we remember to take pictures....

After completing Cinxia, I was surprised to find I felt incomplete without having a sweater on the needles. A sweater? I don't know why. I dug up some UFOs and worked a bit on Cozy, but still, I needed a sweater. I want to make Pippa; I purchased the pattern and swatched with some DB Baby Cashmerino I had lying around. Got perfect gauge and love the fabric. But I don't have enough yarn or the right color, so that will have to wait. My birthday is soon and at least one (perhaps more) of our LYS offer a birthday discount. So that will wait.

I did happen to have in my stash some Bollicina. I found it on sale and loved the color. Cashmere and silk. Yum. I do have enough for a simple sweater, a top-down, knit in the round with negative ease. cap sleeves unless the yarn goes further than I expect.

This fine gauge yarn knits on US 2 needles at 8 stitches per inch. That's a lot of stitches. Should keep my need for sweater knitting going for a while.







Other knitting? I just don't know about socks. Just don't seem to have the yearning burning desire to knit socks. But I am camping this weekend, roughing it, no running water, so have no desire to take a cashmere/silk fine gauge sweater to knit, maybe a sock will get finished.