Pre-Breakfast!
Even though we were only at their place for 24 hours, it took us a crazy amount of time to get there and back. GC and I love road trips but we spend almost as much time in restaurants and ditches and forests and meadows and dirt roads as we do in the car. And sometimes we’re so exhausted we have to pull over to the side of the road and have ourselves a little snooze. (I don’t like to fall asleep when GC’s driving because I secretly suspect he’s a hard-core narcoleptic, so I stay awake to keep him awake so we don’t crash and die.)
GC Searching for Treasures on the Banks of the Crowe River
I did a fair amount of knitting in the car, but I’m not very happy with the results. I bought two skeins of a luxury variegated yarn (Araucania Ruca Multy) to make a baby sweater. I did one front using one skein and the other front using the other skein. One is much pinker while the other is much bluer. At first I tried to convince myself it was all in my imagination.
“Do these look okay to you?” I asked GC. He glanced from the road to the two sweater fronts on my lap. I swear, he only looked for about half a second before looking back to the road.
“They look like completely different colours,” he said helpfully.
So much for that. If a man can see it in half a second, it’s not all in my head. Not that there’s anything wrong with men, but they seem to have fairly primitive powers of colour differentiation. I’m not a whole lot better. Both my sisters can spend five minutes describing a colour, whereas I run out of things to say after the name of the colour and one or two adjectives. “A fairly bright red” is about my limit. But my sisters can wax eloquent about the undertones and flecks and mid-ranges and seasons and temperatures and crispness and depth and texture of a colour.
Do these look okay to you?
Duncan is so happy I’m home again. He licked my face for about fifteen minutes, while simultaneously purring, as I tried to fall asleep last night. And this morning he joined me in the shower. My old dog, Sam, used to join me in the shower from time to time too, whenever there was a thunderstorm, but Duncan does it every day. I’ve rented a bath chair temporarily because sometimes when my back is really bad I can’t stand long enough to take a whole shower. I never get to use the bath chair because Duncan likes to lie on it while I’m showering. He doesn’t even care that he gets damp.
Are you supposed to be divulging the locations of all the geo-caches you find? Like that tree one the other day was pretty specific. Isn’t this kind of like doing book reviews and telling the ending in detail? Isn’t there some sort of geo-caching police unit that’s going to shut you down? I’m just worried is all…because you might not get to have your surgery if you’re in the hoose-gow
I’d tell you to keep it quiet, but it wouldn’t help – it’s next to impossible to keep something hidden from a geocacher! (But we’re allowed to divulge locations – right down to the longitude and latitude. Just not the actual secret hiding spot.)
Road trips always take us longer than the gps says. Probably we’re what I think of as ADD travellers as in “OOh look! What’s that over there? Let’s check it out”. More fun that way.
The sweater looks ok, the fronts are just different colors. You can say it was a design feature. Actually, if there is a frill or something on the front, no one will notice.
Ma’am, I’m with GC. Those are two completely different colours. Ummm, keeping in mind that we doggies are pretty much colourblind…
Yes, the two fronts look like different colourways. The more you are going to look at it, the more it will bug you. Trust me, I’ve been there and waited way too long before finally accepting the problem and ripping out. I can understand an indie dyer having variations in the colourways, but not a mass producer like Araucania. I would rip out the right front side, because it doesn’t even match the back.
I’m with Donna Lee – call it a design feature.
It all comes down to the question of whether you are a perfectionist or a Wabi Sabi knitter who recognizes that nothing has to be perfect. I am the latter … and think that the frill will disguise the difference.
Perhaps make two tiny pockets, one from the blueish skein and one from the pinkish skein, then sew them on the contrasting sides? It’s an adorable sweater and I think Duncan should model it.
Yeah, that’s the problem with variegateds, is they can REALLY change wildly, even in the same dye lot. It’s the nature of that kind of yarn. I think you should go with the whole design feature thing. I also like Szuszan’s idea for doing pockets or something from opposite skeins to balance it, and make it look intentional 😀 I think it’s quite nice, just definitely not the same!
And thanks for the huge laugh re:Duncan. None of our cats get in the shower, though psychocat actually does seem to like rain (the whole once she’s been out in it, since she’s an indoor kitty, and I’m not fond of hanging onto a leash while standing in the rain), and also seems to like having a shower, though I have to drag her in there myself.
I love the idea of the pockets. Thank you!