Evidence of (mindless) knitting

I’ve managed to get a small bit of knitting done in the last few weeks. Finally, here’s some photographic evidence:

The baby sweater I’ve been making for my friends’ daughter is half-seamed now. It’s wanted only finishing for weeks, so I really need to just bite the seaming bullet and get it done before the kid outgrows it. I used Debbie Bliss Wool Cotton for this one.

The Debbie Bliss Ribbed Jacket also falls into the category of “Can Be Knit While Reading” so that one’s gotten a bit of attention as well. Here’s a shot of the back.

I’m two inches away from shaping the shoulders and casting off. Using Debbie Bliss Cotton Cashmere. It’s the first time I’ve ever bought the exact yarn and the exact color as in the pattern photo… And yes, apparently I’m on quite the Debbie Bliss kick lately. As much as I curse her for the errors in her patterns, I do love her designs and her yarns are amazing. In fact, I have three more DB designs planned for the reasonably near future.

I went out to Jersey yesterday to visit my mom for an early mother’s day and wanted a small project to knit on the train. (I can read on the subway no problem but get sick if I read for too long on a regular train…) Several months ago I’d knit three inches of a sock and then put it down because I was just coming off a sock-knitting binge and had had enough. I picked it up again yesterday and got a good bit of it done. It’s Lorna’s Laces, in the Flames colorway.

I’ve got 300 pages left of Proust. That’s halfway through Volume VI…when I first cracked open Volume I, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to make it through all 4500+ pages in one semester…but I have, as have the majority of my classmates. Out of 15 of us at the start, ten of us are still hanging in there and close, so close to the finish line. It really is brilliant, and I’m so glad I’ve read it. I’m not sure I can call it a novel, though. I guess the novel is the form that it most closely resembles, so that will have to do for now… So yes, the semester ends on the 20th and then I’ll just be working and writing. The time that’s been going to classes and Proust the last few months can maybe go into knitting… At least some of it, anyway. I want to finish the first draft of my novel by the end of the summer, so a good amount of time and energy will be spent there. I’m really only good for six hours a day of writing at most, though. After that I’m just useless, so I’ll be forced at some point each day to stop and knit. What a shame, hmmm? I’ve forgotten what it’s like to have several hours in a day to give to knitting. I’m looking forward to getting back to that for the summer.