Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Yarn Along - Birthday Cast On







That top picture there shows a stone bench where we sat long enough to let the cold rock chill the sweat that dripped down our spines as we climbed up the ravine to that point. This was how I spent my birthday, scrambling up the sides of mountains chasing views of waterfalls and wondering how I became so out of shape and prone to aching. "More of this and more often," we kept promising to each other.

I bought a sweater's worth of Knit Pick Galileo in "gem" almost a year ago now with the idea of casting on a short row sweater only I never actually got around to it. The project starts off with a bang: 342 sts cast on and then an inch of K2P2 rib. I didn't like the idea of such a posh seeming sweater being edged with rib so I have now cast on as a birthday treat challenge to myself and I am going about it in linen stitch. Wow. Linen stitch.

It is 61F here today and we have anxiously watched about this hurricane. I think it now will miss us even though just 24 hours ago it was supposed to go right over us! I was on the schedule for the chimney sweep today but he has just called to say that he was incorrectly booked and is currently over two hours away across the state. I'd have told him what I thought a little more plainly but they are hard to come by in this neck of the woods - seems it is a dying art - so I was as polite as I could sand to be, knowing that we will have no glowing fires now for 20 more days at least.

What's keeping you busy? Want to show and tell? Join Ginny and the others for Yarn Along!

6 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday! It's always good cast on as you start a new to you years. Hopefully, that hurricane will continue to go right over you.

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  2. Happy birthday! Wow, it sounds like you were pretty active, good on you! Our chimney sweeps come around annually, actually like clockwork, which is a blessing as they tend to be on time and know their appointment a year in advance ;) Hope yours comes by soon. X

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  3. Happy Birthday. The views look amazing. Good luck with your sweater and linen stitch! The chimney guy sounds like a major putz! Sorry.

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  4. Happy Birthday - hope the challenge goes well! The colour of your yarn is just gorgeous.

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  5. Happy birthday to you :) I say more of this as well and sometimes it helps and sometimes it doesn't. I have found if you compare yourself within your age group then you are ahead of the game most of the time :) Lovely yarn and YAY for a sweater!!!!

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  6. Hopefully the hurricane passed you over with as little damage as possible!

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