The satisfying click of needles when you finally cast-on after a long drought.
A second project, started when intricate lace was knit during first periods and taken back during first intermissions. It's hard to tell whether it was the games or the mistakes that affected my language more. "He shoots, and it goes wide. There's a penalty coming up..." and I have lost my place for the fourteen hundredth time in the last twenty minutes.
Tomatoes. I have zero luck with gardening. Gardening requires you to run on the garden's schedule. You can't put it aside until inspiration strikes or you find the right shade of yarn. You can't say, It can wait until next week. But I am hopeful. See - they're 4 inches high and I haven't killed them yet. :-D [Insert tiny, quiet 'yay' that couldn't possibly court contempt from the gardening spirits here.]
I haven't knit in over a year... perhaps I'll cast on in the autumn months. Summer's just too warm to knit hehe
ReplyDeleteI'm a terrible gardener too but I grew tomatoes for the first time last year and they flourished. I don't know what I did so fingers crossed this year. I did kill my basil plants because I plucked off all the leaves for pesto. Oopsies.
Lovely beginnings and I can't wait to see the endings! Such pretty knitting and you got you some fine lookin' mater plants a sproutin' there. :)
ReplyDeleteAnother commonality...I have a BROWN thumb...make that BLACK! My husband has said that it is a good thing our kids are not plants...
ReplyDeleteOh I love coming back to knitting after a long dry spell. Isn't it crazy satisfying?
ReplyDeleteIsn't knitting the best! I am drooling over your striped project. Those colors are so great together and the stripe configuration is so preppy.
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, I've never been able to grow tomatoes from seed, so I'm very impressed by your 4" sprouts!
I don't even bother with tomatoes from seeds... I cheat and get starts. Hee... they look so sweet, when they're baby plants. Go you!!
ReplyDeleteThese are really lovely pieces!
ReplyDeleteConsidering that I have never casted anything off that I have cast on... I envy you tremendously!!! I need to get my sister back in town so she can help me get my meager scarf off the needles!!!!
I love those stripes! What great colors, and just the right proportions.
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