What really keeps me mostly sane is the knitting and the sleeping. Some evenings, I was far to exhausted to even hold the needles, after dinner and a bit of TV, I would typically be on the phone or headed towards bed. Luckily, my Dad who has been quite ill is on the road to partial recovery. So that part of my stress has dwindled. Work stress on the other hand is still present, but is lessening. And it's mostly just stress while at work, I don't have to take it home with me, yay.
One thing that I do notice though, is that when I take these little breaks, a few days off knitting, it REALLY makes me appreciate it more and then I can't wait to pick up the needles and I go with gusto!
So noted in a recent project, which I'm nearing the end of and very happy about! It's the Haruni shawl which I actually started last May. It starts small and GROWS!!! So back in May, I did several inches in ONE night! I was so pleased with myself and thought I'd be done in no time. Then... Oh look, shiny.... I wandered off the path and this sat around, until about a 1 1/2 weeks ago and I picked it up and started working on it again. I made wonderful progress and am now nearly finished! I have 14 rows to finish, which is approximately 5.5 hours. And then the cast off, which will take some additional time, but I'm thinking, I can certainly get to this this weekend as long as I don't get distracted and cast on for that sweater I've been wanting to make with the new yarn I just got in the mail!
Whitknits.com was having a great malabrigo sale, Malabrigo Stockpile to be exact, so I ordered a bagful of the Chunky weight in PAGODA, it's reddish/burgundy color with a hint of orange tones. It's an interesting color for sure and I think it will work out swell. But I REALLY have to finish that shawl!
Here is a not so great photo of it.
the yarn is noro with lovely pink and purple stripes. I can't wait to finish and block!!!
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