Don't You Just Love It?

Ta da!  The yarn for my Classic Cardigan and don't you just love the heathered amethyst colorway.  This is KnitPicks' organic cotton, the same yarn I used for the Lace-Edged Cardi.  I love knitting with this yarn because it is soft, has good stitch definition and is sport weight.  I prefer knitting with sport and DK weight yarns.  I have hardly used a worsted weight yarn in the last year.

Also on the needles--seed stitch scarf-that-would-be-cowl in white merino and Kid Silk Haze AND Pixie Sticks Scarf in light and dark pink instead of pink and white.  I love the pink and pink peppermint sticks I buy at Christmas time so this scarf looks good enough to eat!  This will be a Christmas gift.  The scarf is angled and has a ruffle on the edges, the reason for the provisional cast on.

Weight Watchers is slow and at times grueling.  I have, however, lost 14 pounds and am thankful beyond belief for that much!!  I am losing at approximately .6 pounds a week due partly to my age I'm sure, and to the sedentary lifestyle that accounting forces on one.  I have started taking a mile walk during the middle of the day and have ramped up my evening gardening duties to weed pulling and edging around the raised beds.  Still--SLOW!!  At least the scale is going in the right direction!

After a week of the weeding I am putting a sign I found on Pinterest on my door.  It says, "Ring bell.  If no answer, pull weeds!"

Life is good.

Working, Working....

I did a lot this weekend--a lot of sitting and knitting!  The Two Kaths Hat is finished and the seed stitch scarf that would be a cowl is almost finished.  It started out as a scarf but decided to be a cowl partly due to the tactile joy the seed stitch brings, and partly due to the quickly decreasing amount of the kid silk yarn I have added to the white merino wool.  I thought I had another skein of it but nooooooo.

While I knit DH watched weekend golf and I listened to an audio book--The Third Gate by Lincoln Child.  This is not a book I would want to listen to in the dark as I do sometimes when I can't sleep.   Just a little weird and scary in a Stephen King sort of way!  That was a good thing on Saturday and Sunday because as the plot became more tense I knitted faster and faster!

The weekend also brought a revelation which is, I cannot Not have a sweater on the needles!!  The result of this discovery is that I ordered more organic cotton:

for the Superior Classic Cardigan.  Click on the link and see my next project.  I can't wait for the yarn to arrive.

Life is good!