I have been sad and anxious, and I guess I haven’t felt like writing for a couple of days, but I have been nervously knitting and spinning when not staring off into space.
On Saturday I found the beginning of this vest in a Shopko bag upstairs along with a fair sized ball of gray handspun yarn. There was about 1 1/2” done. I should have been finishing off a couple other projects but those involved sewing, and my nervous system needed to knit, something simple that would make the most of this yarn. No pattern but I followed the proportions for a child’s vest in Ann Budd’s useful book, The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns. Of course I didn’t know for sure that I would have enough yarn to complete the vest, so I was thinking of alternate plans of color blocking the upper fronts if I ran out. I had just this much left over:
Not enough for the trim but that was not a problem! I just went through my big basket of handspun looking for a contrasting color. I started with an orangey red but decided I didn’t like it, so I pulled that out. Then I picked this lovely deep green singles which was too thin, so I worked with two ends so it would be doubled. I finished it up today.
There is a lot of knitting in this little simple vest, just the therapy I needed.
And today I finished spinning this wool, just need to wash it. I get to pick out a new (old) knitting project and a new spinning project for this week. And maybe work on the sampler that I have on my loom:
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