Two completed, ornate, MATCHING sleeves.

We do a lot of meetings at work with video, now.  Still nobody can see me knit below the camera.  They probably think I’m looking at a phone.

 

Enough with the subtlety and the neutrals; this shit just got jewel-toned.

Something completely different, a nice neutral I call “Honey Blonde.”

Just 26 days ago, that skein you see me holding was running around the barn.

That’s what I love about my hobby; not any particular step or action or outcome, but the overall transformation.

BTW I declared victory over S’E2S’E.  Ten projects, a nice book and tote bag.

I didn’t realize #8 looked so much like #7.

 

After shearing I could hardly wait to wash and dye (and spin) Janet.  So I started the very next day!  I didn’t like the saturation levels of my results.  I was using formulas from Greener Shades and being very exact, and I double-double-checked the formulas, so I don’t know why they came out so pale.  What you see above was doctored with additional yellow (on the left) and orange (on the right).  The one on the left has some severe splotches, but I blended up the one on the right a bit better.

I really didn’t like either color at first, even after the doctoring, but they’ve grown on me a little.

You can see in the background that biking season has been inaugurated as well as dyeing season.

No new COVID deaths were reported in Vermont today, and the number hospitalized has dropped to single-digits.

 

Thanx for your interest!  I don’t block.  I’m just bad at texture work, my purls don’t correlate well with my knits, or something.  I’m only doing a pattern from this book because it was a gift, and because I’m kind of “what the hell” about knitting, will try anything.  I did learn the long-tail cast-on which was fun (from the web – NOT from the awful illustration and directions in the book).

 

This is the first sleeve of the first Danish sweater.  It doesn’t look like the picture in the book.  It’s supposed to have a star pattern.  It has a pattern, just kind of a mishmash.

 

My seventh skein of the season.

		2-Apr	3-Apr	4-Apr	5-Apr
	Did you stay home today?	Takeout. Curbside.   With a mask.	Yes, 100%	Went for milk & Chinese	Errand day
	What was for dinner?	Hatchet	Leftovers	Chinese	Mushroom barley soup
	What business or charity did you support?	Hatchet	Frontline Foods	Joyce’s Noodle House – only Chinese open	Sweet Clover
		2-Apr	3-Apr	4-Apr	5-Apr
Chittenden	Positive test results	177	199	245	271
Vermont	Positive test results*	338	389	461**	512**
	Total tests conducted	4,711	5,228	5,844	6,582
	Deaths+	17	17	20	22
	People being monitored	127	102	89	62
	People who have completed monitoring	677	705	718	745
	Hospitalized patients with COVID-19	29	29	29	29
	Hospitalized patients under investigation for COVID-19	42	44	44	44

I wonder what it means that “People being monitored” keeps dropping and dropping.  Have they quit monitoring?  Wow, this sounds like a great question for Vermont Edition.

 

Finally, #6, “Latte”, on the end.  It was finished a while ago, but it felt sticky.  It came from Columbia whose fleece really held the grease last year.  So I washed it in Tide once again in yarn form.  Some of the dye inevitably leached.

This might be the last time we see the Team of Six together.  I think I might ship these off to Six Loose Ladies in Chester.  They tell me people ask for mohair yarn, and they currently have none.  Chester Needs Mohair.

 

 

S’E2S’E #9 complete:

And, because hope springs eternal, the 2020 seed order is in:

Emiko F1 SKU: 2381-A Size 25 SEEDS

Napoli F1 Carrot SKU: 2322-A Size 250 SEEDS

Red Russian Kale SKU: 2530-A Size 1/32 OZ

Outredgeous SKU: 2592-A Size 1/32 OZ

PLS 14 Shelling Pea SKU: 2758-A Size 1 OZ

Sora Radish SKU: 2855-A Size 100 SEEDS

Costata Romanesco Zucchini SKU: 2895-A Size 1/8 OZ

Sweet Chocolate Pepper SKU: 2815-A Size 1/64 OZ

Corno di Toro Pepper SKU: 2778-A Size 1/64 OZ

NuMex Joe E. Parker Anaheim Pepper SKU: 2785-A Size 1/64 OZ