I'm not sure why this happens, but anytime I'm super happy with a finished project, I seem to wallow in short attention span/problem project world for a bit.
After I completed Bee Balm, I was on a "project high"... sort of chasing the dragon if you will. I'm looking for a project that will give me the same feeling of sucess and satisfaction as that one did.
That's gonna be hard, as it's one of my favorite projects. Ever.
So I'm working here and there on some things. Matt's Cotton Sampler is progressing, but slowly. I'm only working on it during breakfast, so that means not a lot of rows are getting done each day. I should move it up to my regular knitting rotation, as I am very happy with how it's knitting up and I know he's going to enjoy the finished sweater.
As for projects for me... I just can't get focused. Tho' I may have hit on something:
A white crochet summer cardigan. Pattern is by Melissa Leapman and can be found in her book Crochet with Style. I'm using a sport weight linen/cotton blend (Elann's Linen Twist) in bright white.
The yarn is very splitty, and the high linen content makes it smells (and the moisture in the air doesn't help... but right now I think everything smells). It's so splitty in fact, that I had to change the upper section to an easier to work stitch. The original uses a "textured sand pattern", which you need to work into the front/back of the loops. With this splitty yarn, every stitch was taking me forever. So I just changed it to a sc/dc stitch and I'm okay with it. It's really the bottom stitch that makes this cardigan anyway.
It's moving quickly (especially once I changed out the top section pattern stitch) and the back is at the armhole shaping.
So I'll focus in it... for now. While I try to work on Matt's Cotton Sampler, and maybe some of these other summer cardigans sitting around my knitting knest. I still hope to get two projects done this month!
I get that same feeling after a big project. That's a pretty crochet pattern.
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