The state of the knitting

Sometimes Blogger still surprises me, after all these years. For example, today it uploaded all my pictures in the opposite order to what I wanted. It is all knitting, and I suppose I could just tell my story backwards, but I really think I have to move things around and get it the way I want. 

Ahem.

The main thing I am knitting these days is my blue cotton top. I really want it done by, um, the day after tomorrow, but I realize now that that might not happen. 

This is the front, with the faux cable. The dotted line there shows where I started increasing for the sleeves. Of course the front and back are not the same, so I have to do what I can to make sure things match up.

That cable was such a pain to knit that I did something different on the back, copying a chart from an old Rowan pattern. Now I think the back will be better than the front. The troubles I have....

That project requires me to look at the pattern and keep track of my rows, and it just was not suitable for film-lineup knitting. Of course, when I got home from a day of watching movies, I was not full of liveliness and concentration, so it didn't get much attention at all during the last week or two. 

I took my scarf of scraps to lineups. I am almost finished the bright green, moving through some greys. I will have extra grey and am not sure how the whole thing will come together. We'll just have to wait and see. 

One day something made me not take that scarf, but to start on a dishcloth instead. I can't now recall what the issue was, but now I have a 3/4-knitted dishcloth. 

I ran out of the "mortar" colour, added a new one, ran out of the "brick" yarn and so will finish with bricks and mortar all one colour. That is the joy of knitting dishcloths! Who really cares what colour it is?! 

On Friday we will set off to New York City for a week. I will tell you more about that shortly, but one of the things I have to do to prepare is find a suitable knitting project for planes, hotel rooms, sitting in the park or the Shake Shack. I bought this yarn called Jack O'Lantern at the Knit City a while ago (oh, my goodness, I didn't tell you about that...) and it is perfect for Zoolandia, an oldie but goody from Stephen West. Kind of interesting, kind of easy pattern to remember. If New York is really boring, I'll have this for Halloween! (I hope it won't be.)

Knit City was a big fair and sale of all things knitty, at the end of September. There were tons of vendors and I think I did well to only buy a couple of skeins of this yarn. I don't think you can see, but there are tiny sparkles throughout the yarn! Two skeins will make kind of a giant shawl!

I don't tend to do much for Halloween, especially not hand-knit a specially spooky shawl, but this could be kinda fun! And even for the rest of the season, it is just my murky colours. 

Back tomorrow (or the next day) with travel plans! I don't suppose I will take the laptop with me, so Blogtober might end sooner than planned, but one never knows.