A Little Yarn On The Side

......very, very simple knitting.  Something that requires no thought, no pattern, and can be picked up and put down in a flash.  So.... there is a new scarf on the needles.  It's a free pattern called Lacy Brioche , and it's just one row over and over again until you can't stand it.  Combined with a variegated yarn, it's like the knitting equivalent of a lava lamp--soothing, subtly changing, and very pretty.  It's working so well with the variegated lace weight that I see another one of these in my future as well...........there's a slipped stitch effect in the pattern that stops the obvious pooling that so often happens with variegated yarns.   Thank heavens--I had originally purchased 4 hanks of this yarn thinking I would make a shawl BEFORE realizing that I hate the way variegated yarns look in shawls, so it's nice to find patterns that work in this yarn.  In spite of the puddling problems, I do love the colors of this yarn and would never ...

Bless baby sweaters!!!! Sweater number TWO is done (except for buttons, which I'll find when I get the sewing room put back together), so now I'm only about one and a half sweater behind.  That sounds better, right?  I'm going to work on the collar and band for the blue sweater which is down to just the bands and a few seams.  Maybe finishing this and another baby sweater will get me back on track.........?

Even though I ended up having to work most of yesterday, I did manage to finish the current lace scarf,   (sorry--old picture.  Andy is upgraded my laptop today and I didn't want to have to learn the updated picture thing just yet)  which adds 440 yards to my yardage for the year, and then I finished the first ball of yarn for the current baby sweater, so just one week into the second quarter and I have used up 25 skeins of yarn and 5,472 yards of yarn.  Maybe I could still reach 20,000............................