There’s the first Manos Silk scarf done, I did the second yesterday from the first of Kathy’s yarn (thank you Kathy!) and it’s now waiting to be blocked and the ends run in on both, and today, trying to choose which yarn to scarf down next… I instead tackled the longterm UFO that’s been off alone in a corner. It simply declared it was its time now. I argued with it for about an hour and then caved.
I love Sea Silk. I love the Monterey pattern with its jellyfish and seaweed and the crash of the surf at the neckline, I really do. And the idea of putting the two together, and in the Ocean colorway, was just so poetically perfect: actual seaweed turned into aquatic patterns in deep-sea blue, looking shimmery and gorgeous. How can you get better than that?
So I went down a needle size to match the yarn and off I went. But Sea Silk is very slippery and the Monterey is a complicated bear if you drop a stitch. There’s a reason I rated it expert. That wasn’t stopping me so much as wondering if the woman whom I don’t know that it’s going to will, you know, actually…like it…
I had rubber baby buggy bumpers on the needle tips every time I put it down when I started. But that was a goodly while ago, months, and I don’t know quite where they are now. I was afraid those stitches were threatening to be bungee jumpers every time I picked the project up.
I found myself needing to finish up old tasks today. It was time. I got one and a half full pattern repeats done so far, and at that rate I’ll finish tomorrow afternoon, unless it declares it wants to be longer than I’m planning.
It’s already shown that it’s the one calling the shots.