I finally finished the lower body, which should not have taken the better part of a year and a half to get through, but that's what I get for starting projects willy nilly and then abandoning them in strange corners of my apartment. It feels like it's been a hot minute since I've shared my unicorn sweater on the blog, but quarantine has me making some major progress. Happy Monday! Is it Monday? Time is meaningless. I love you all, specially and individually. We are all trying to be patient and generous, even though it's hard sometimes. You're doing your best, and that's enough. This week I'm starting a time-consuming, detail-oriented, somewhat boring work project, which, while not as interesting as some of what I do, is very important, and will give me a chance to catch up on some podcasts. Today I'll make the frosting, and I'm also hoping to bake bread, as it's been a while since I've done that. I had the idea a couple weeks ago to make chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and keeping them in the freezer so I could grab a quick piece of cake when I wanted. Yesterday was also fairly nap-heavy, but I managed to get a pan of brownies made and two dozen chocolate cupcakes. Then I had a bubble bath and afterwards I watched some cartoons and knit a bit. When I finally woke up again, I read in bed, until late afternoon, when I went to mum's for egg rolls and special rice for dinner. When we got back, I pretty much went straight back to bed. Alas, we didn't have any luck finding dog food, but my sister managed to score some in the city later in the weekend, so we're set for a while now. My car hasn't gotten to go on the highway since early March, so it was nice to get her out for a drive. Saturday morning my mum and I got up early to drive to the next big town near us to see if their Walmart had dog food, as ours has been out. The second sleeve of my unicorn sweater is moving along-it's not quite halfway done yet, but still, that's good progress-and I've passed the halfway point on the body of my tank top sample. I've been too lazy to come up with something to photograph, which is telling, as I've actually made quite a bit of progress on a couple different knits. You are each very special to me, and the world is better for you being in it. It's made following some parts of the pattern challenging, as I have to remember what I've changed and how it affects the instructions, but that's all my own fault for making half-assed notes on the pattern (and using water-soluble ink and then spilling beverages on it, so quite a few of my notes are now just a blob.).Īs always, I love you. I'll go more into details about mods when the sweater is finished, but it's pretty heavily modified, just for my own preferences. Obviously, I decided to go with intarsia, and now I have a confusing, tangled mess to deal with. I went back and forth up until about three minutes before I started the yoke about whether I wanted to knit the yoke flat and do the colorwork in intarsia, as written, or if I wanted to knit it in the round and duplicate stitch my unicorns on later. I very rarely knit yoke sweaters from the bottom-up, and that first inch after attaching the sleeves is so hard! I'd love to get the intarsia finished this weekend so I can zip through the yoke decreases and get started on finishing, but it took over five hours to knit the first twelve rounds of the yoke (two rounds in the MC followed by ten rows of intarsia), so we'll see how I do. Let's talk knitting! I finished the sleeves for my unicorn sweater and got them attached to the body, and I'm currently ten rows into the 26-row intarsia chart. I can't believe it's been ten weeks! The pandemic has really changed a lot very quickly, and it's hard to comprehend that I've been isolating in my apartment for so long.Īnyway.
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