So, I both have a ton of extra time and much more exhaustion this week than most weeks of the year. Almost all of the kids are gone with work or airshow work during the day and theoretically, this means much more time to knit and get things done at home and so forth. Well, that is true, but I'm also living with airshow schedules for Rich and everyone else, and doing extra at home and making more runs back and forth places, and I'm tired.

So, I'm making progress, but not as much as I wanted. I've finished the first set of increases on my jacket. I now have nine more to go. Did I say this last week? These are the most complicated increases for a sweater body and sleeves I've ever seen. In some ways, I get why they are done this way, but it seems overly complicated.

As for Saint Patrick, I am moving right along with it. I'm weighing my yarn obsessively as I go, because I bought it in Dublin seven years ago. There is no way I will ever be able to get more, and certainly not of this exact dye lot. So, I keep going and weighing. I've also figured out how to change it if it looks like the yarn won't last for the entire design. I've already done the calculations on how to shift on the pattern.

Why do I do this to myself? I have yarn I bought in Canada that I now want to use for a sweater design, and I know it isn't enough. I have found exactly one mini-skein of it, in one of the colors, in someone else's stash, not for sale. I contacted the dyer, and she doesn't even make one of the colors anymore, and the other would take a special order and shipping from Canada and hope both that it arrives at all and that the dye lot matches enough. The only solution is to get sweater quantities of everything I buy, but that seems extreme.

I peeked into Taco USA exactly once this past week. It feels like I used to be a much more avid reader than I am now. I think it is the exhaustion.

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// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 1:28 PM