The Patterns of Our Lives

I juggle the balance of post more often/shorter, post less often/longer.  Then time reaches out of my grasp.  

Knitting mojo came back when I desultorily cast on for And So Are You.  The stash seems to be following the rule of LIFO (last in first out).  The yarn is Tavikki colorway, Caper sock MCN from String Theory. Pattern-driven purchasing has been successful in the Etherknitter Stash.  

I chose the colorway for the pattern after seeing Kim's and Judy's at SPA.  Those two knitters are so accomplished, they probably even look stylish while sleeping.  At first, as I went through the beginning shorter rows of the pattern, the pooling was disturbing.  Often guilty of premature closure in knitting  (leaping to conclusions with inadequate or premature data on which to base a decision), I overrode the frog impulse.  The longer rows smoothed out the pools, and the colorway variations do not ruin the texture.

I am close to the end of the body.  Every fourth row is a fidgety pattern row.  (Those p3togs are always interesting to a tight knitter.)  Counting, there are seven fidget pattern rows left.  I wanted to get them all done at once.  Clearly, that won't work in pattern, they come when they come, and cannot be rushed by the impatient knitter. 

Life runs that way, also.  I wish I could hurry up parts, to get to other parts.  Or to get the unfun parts out of the way.  Of course, I know it doesn't work like that.  *deep breath*  We just have to get through whatever - the pattern row, the bump in the road, the scritchy part of life.

The metaphor goes on.  Some patterns produce good results.  Patterns let you execute the "do over" much easier than life allows.  The fiber pursuits are good that way.  Patterns are finished with quiet persistence, hard work, puzzlement at times, figuring things out.  

Yeah, that is also how a good life is lived.

Spinning.  Opulence merino65%/silk 35% top, for two ply heavier laceweight.  The general plan was shawl or scarf.  I think I am done with merino for awhile.  Slow, fiddly, the experience is not quite the relaxing time I want right now.  How does four ounces suddenly look so looming?  The six pounds in 2012 is WAY behind for many reasons, and that is one of them.  The Magnus wheel is now set up with some Spunky Eclectic BFL.  SPA sweaters gave me the idea of knitting a simple pullover in all the variations of BFL I have spun.  Back burner, that one, but at least on a visible burner.

We had lunch in the Park City yurt last month.  Rudimentary choices, quirky decor, but we could not say no to ski-in-ski-out.  This is their tissue holder.

 

Comments

[margene]

Time for deep breathing, living without the rush. If any time is time to say "it's the process" this is it.

[Anne]

Despite the fact I can likely hear you shaking your head and rolling your eyes over what I'm about to say.....I think having SOME progress is worthy of note. Maybe not up to whatever random goal was laid upon it at the beginning, but it's still SOME. Which is good.

[claudia]

Its good to see you right back at it!

[Cheryl S.]

I'm afraid my stash tends to be LIFO, too. I've been trying to work on that.

[Lynn]

I don't know about quiet persistence. I think knitting and life go better with chatty persistence.

[Judy]

The first line of your post, pretty much sums up my blogging efforts these days.
Lynn's comment... I love it. As one of the quiet ones, I bet she's right.

[Carole]

I brought And So Are You with me to Virginia, thinking I would knit at night. Our days have been so long, however, that I haven't had the chance yet and I think it will wait until we get home.

[June]

For P3tog - it will look a little different, but you could try slip 1, p2tog, psso.

Or, remembering my Estonian lace experience, add yarnovers on the prior row, between the the stitches to be purled, and when you get to them on the fidgety row, slip 1, drop yo, slip 1, drop yo, slip 1 - then insert the left needle back into the 3 stitches and wiggle waggle until the tension is even, put them back on the left needle, then P3tog. Clear as mud?

[gayle]

We need those between times for spacers - if we just kept skipping ahead to the good bits, we'd reach the End way too soon.

OTOH, I'd be very pleased if you posted every ten minutes...

[Melissa G]

Scritchy parts! 7 hours on the new ACL--sitting now.

For some reason I'm finishing WIPs. Maybe 'cause I'm also knitting something with no purpose but pretty.

[Caroline M]

As a tight knitter I feel your pain at the P3tog. Now you've started then you'll have to finish but I might have subbed a different decrease.

It's all very blue again - should I come one day and see red I'll take it as a sign of alien possession.

[Kim]

Those hard parts make the good parts feel that much better in the end though, don't they?

Your shawl is going to be stunning on you in that colorway!