Keeping my sanity

[vaneramos]

I am immersed in writing my longest article yet, 2,500 words. It is science-rich. I am working slowly ensure everything is clearly understandable and accurate. Flow is important, too, but for tonight I just want to get everything down. I can shuffle pieces in the morning. It is due tomorrow.

For breaks I resort to knitting the handspun shawlette. This is for my guild's lace study group. It is intense, too, but in a different way, a good counterbalance to writing. The initial cast-on was 273 stitches. It takes me 30-40 minutes to knit one row with all the lace work, 15 minutes to purl across the back. On my first attempt I knitted 11 rows, almost this far, before realizing I could not tolerate a mistake in the third row, so I ripped it all out and started again. I knitted two other lace pieces several years ago now, but this is much more complicated. Doing it with my first large skein of handspun is especially satisfying.

Here is the original skein, but photos do not bring out the iridescence of some of the colour flecks.