a knitting frenzy

It’s always nice to forget a hobby for a bit and then get back into it and remember why you loved it in the first play.  I’ve gone a little off the deep end with the knitting.  Not sure if it’s the weather, or the fact that I can do it while snuggling a sick child (which I did a lot of this week) or the fact that it has nothing to do with anything of the things I’m SUPPOSED to be doing, like getting caught up on my miserably-behind Project Life or sewing Christmas presents or embroidering Christmas advent ornaments or you know, laundry/cleaning/cooking or something even worse like accounting or work website updating.  It’s probably a lot of that.  But regardless, I completed another project this week: the star crossed beret and I *LOVE* it.  The yarn and pattern were such a perfect match and I am going to wear the crap out of this thing this winter!  It was a totally fabulous first cable project.  I really enjoyed the cables (and I love the look of them) so I think I’ll try a millwater cowl next!

I’m trying to go back and resurrect some UFOS, too, like this shawl from over a year ago.  I had slowed down and eventually abandoned it because (a) I didn’t like how dark the gray was looking against the stripes and (b) the lace wasn’t looking right at all.  I learned a few days ago that it’s because I was doing yarnovers backward.  So…while exiled upstairs with Ellie last night during the Cub Scout meeting (trying to keep people away from her germs) I ripped out the grey and have it all set up to try again with white and correctly oriented yarnovers.  I just need a LOT more stitch counters and then I’m off to the races!

I am loving having a little wiggle room in my schedule now that wedding season is over.  I have a couple of portrait shoots every week but yesterday for the first time in months I had zero client work to do and that feeling was amazing.  I’ll be back to having client work this afternoon after my session, but to know that for a few days each week I won’t anything on the edit list is the lightest feeling in the world!