Mother Nature is having some sort of breakdown. We've had wind.... so much wind. We've had unseasonably warm weather which has melted all our snow. Then it's turned cold and everything is white and icy again. We've had it switch almost every other day, from green to white and back to green again! It got so warm that the sap stopped running. Then it got cold again, and the next day was mild and the sap started to run once again. Yesterday there were wind warnings, but it was mild. Today we had a windchill of -20 in the morning and snow squalls like it was the dead of winter. This weather is tiring and it feels like the wind hasn't stopped since last December.
On one of those lovely days though, it was over 10C. It was still windy but not quite as bad as it has been and it was sunny! We've had so little sunshine that it was really nice. I stuffed the shawls I'd knit over the winter into the washer and wet finished them. I soaked them for a bit with a tiny bit of soap. Then I spun them out, rinsed with a soak and spun them again. I put one on the deck table to block it as best as I could. The other two were hung on the line, knowing that I'd probably get little pointy bat wing type bits on the top edges. They dried so quickly. I did have to put a clothes peg on the tip of the beige one because the wind was blowing it oddly. The little bit of extra weight held it nicely. They dried quickly. I realised that I was happy that I didn't put the lacy border on the last shawl because it would have then been way too long.
I was running errands yesterday and chanced across a yarn sale for 30% off. I ended up with enough yarn to make a sweater. It's recycled polyester, so not quite my favourite to work with but it's a great colour and cost only $24. Because of the cost and the fact it's recycled yarn, it makes me happy.
Is it bad though that I'm thinking about starting another shawl instead of that sweater?
I say, follow your inspiration! Your shawls are really pretty.
ReplyDeleteGood buy on the yarn. Recycled is good too! My librarian was telling me the other day that she sources yarn by pulling apart sweaters she buys at thrift shops.
The weather is yo-yo-ing here too. We bounce from almost too hot to frigid and back again. Such fun.
I've looked for thrift store sweaters but the issue here is that we have only one thrift store left here and it's the pricey one. Those too hot days can really mess up the spring blooming cycle. I hope they even out for all of us.
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