Back to the afghan, made good progress yesterday. Ran out of that ball of blue and went to start the next.

Crum.

It’s a thin weight and I’ve been knitting it doubled but there was only a single ball ready, wound up who knows when. This is the problem with working from cones: you have to hank, scour the mill oils out, hang, dry, and then wind every single one. Quality+mill outlet price+cashmere=work+time.

I went looking, found the rest of the cones and there was one cone’s worth that I’d already washed and hanked. Yay. I wound it up, and then wound it again along with that first ball because, two strands, intarsia, I’ve learned not to have two separate ones rolling around tangling when you only have to have one per color or section.

Knitted a good bit of the day.

Got up this morning and this time I finally saw what had been nagging away at my subconscious that whole time: I now had three strands of that blue on that new ball. It had already been double-wound when I did all that work yesterday. That’s what I get for letting it sit there waiting for two months.

I should maybe frog yesterday’s rows. But the beaver dam is finished now, the second tree is started now, that rock in the water is started now, that foreground tree is at its uppermost branches.

I had plenty of time to think about it while I slowly, carefully, unwound that tripled ball back into single and doubled ones. With resting my shoulders and hands time, those *558 yards took me most of the day. How, when you pull two strands straight up from the floor to wind them together, do they end up needing to be constantly untwisted as you take them the other direction? It was very obvious which two had been together a long time and which had not, and yet…

I picked up the afghan and carefully examined it in sunlight, room light, and thought, nah, it’s good. Nobody could tell that part was slightly different but me.

But you know?

I think I’ll let it sit in my brain and see how I see it in the morning. Sleeping on it, it turns out, is a good thing.

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*Half price at the time.