Se sou tinta tu és tela

Today I won't stay on topic, today I'll savour some Portugese and imagine spring rain on my skin.

Tänään ei kirjoiteta aiheesta, tänään nautitaan portugalilaistunnelmissa ja kuvitellaan pieni kevätsade iholle.

Stuck in the Middle

I don't consider myself a victim of the SS-syndrome (the dreaded Second Sock Syndrome), but I tend to have problems with the second cast on. This goes for mittens as well as socks, and probably has more to do with DPNs than anything else: I just don't like knitting the first few rounds with them. What with the needles persistently dangling instead of staying put, and the rib looking wonky, I just want to get to the part where the pattern has already started to emerge and things are going nice and smooth.

This moment between one of the pair having been cast off but before the other one has been cast on is when I'm most tempted to start another project -one that isn't knitted on DPNs. This is how I've started multiple scarves, although only one of them has survived so far. Usually the moment passes, and I go on to knit the pair.

The scarf (it's considerably longer now than in the picture) that has survived is Old Shale Scarf (rav-link), a pattern which I received in a Ravelry exchange. It's easy enough for a lace noob like me, but gets rather tedious after a while. I've been knitting it every now and then, mostly when other projects bore me.

The best thing about the scarf-to-be is the yarn: my first Manos (silk blend), and so soft and squishy that I could make a bed of it.

A Lost Fight

It has been the kind of a day when I'm afraid to so much as attempt knitting, because if everything else goes awry, what can  you expect from something that tends to go a bit awry even on the best of days?

It hasn't gone quite as badly as I expected, but the bottom of my sock still is developing a very visible line between the 4th and 1st needle. I won't post a picture, at least not now, it's nearly 11 pm and much too dark (and yes, I do knit -and read- with too little light), but it appeared out of nowhere a little after the heel. I'm tempted to blame the yarn (cherry tree hill sock) for being too soft and slippery, but it's more likely just me. It's still annoying, though. Fighting against the Knitting Gods is really the last thing I need tonight.

The colour of the day (season?)

Shouldn't be difficult to guess what have been my colours of choice lately. Yellow, yellow-pink (it looks white-ish pink in the picture but is not really), green-brown-yellow, orange-yellow...See the pattern?

The solid yellow is Vuorelma Veto, bought from Sypressi, Helsinki; The pink-yellow is Naurava lammas, colourway "queen amber", bought from Lankabaari, Turku; The green-brown-yellow is from Ripples Yarns, colourway "easter surprise"; and the Tofutsies just arrived today as an exchange with Tui.