Saturday did not go quite as planned.
Mar. 21st, 2026 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickThe plan was to go to Mom's and do the met livestream for Tristan and Isolde (Wagner opera). The tickets were $24.00 each. We got there and sat down and waited for the opera to start.
The livestream started but there was no sound. Opera without sound isn't... ideal. We gave them fifteen minutes to get it sorted, which they did not manage to do. So we got refunds and went to a leisurely lunch at the Millworks in Harrisburg (where mom lives) and then I drove home.
I got home around 5 PM but there was plenty of time for knitting afterward so now there are 17 squares done. The new yarn with sufficient twist in the plying knits up well and blocks well. Stitch definition is crisper but not crunchy or weird and fabric moves as it should, so I'm fully on board with the new style of yarn.
I seem to be managing approximately two squares a week with enough spinning going in the background to keep me supplied with yarn for the knitting. All I will say there is that it's a good thing I'm not trying to keep from freezing in the winter or clothe a hardscrabble farm family of six in warm woolen handknits... but I'll do all right for me.
I have considered starting the seaming of squares (I hate seaming so getting a head start might not be a bad idea, the "Do It As You Go On" approach has been working well for weaving in of ends and blocking) but I think that given the inevitability of variation in shades-of-brown and textures-of-white that perhaps I should get all the squares done and then lay them out all together to find a most-pleasing pattern before I start seaming.
I am planning to number the squares with pinned-on tags after they have been arranged so that I can put them together in the proper arrangement. 1-6 for across, A-G for vertical, a 2 part coordinate will indicate a single square.
I've also considered wussing out and making a halfghan because I'm like four squares away from a halfghan... but I really do want a full afghan and not a halfghan. And I'm enjoying the spinning progress, so that's also motivating. I am only mentioning this because I absolutely love the neologism halfghan.
The livestream started but there was no sound. Opera without sound isn't... ideal. We gave them fifteen minutes to get it sorted, which they did not manage to do. So we got refunds and went to a leisurely lunch at the Millworks in Harrisburg (where mom lives) and then I drove home.
I got home around 5 PM but there was plenty of time for knitting afterward so now there are 17 squares done. The new yarn with sufficient twist in the plying knits up well and blocks well. Stitch definition is crisper but not crunchy or weird and fabric moves as it should, so I'm fully on board with the new style of yarn.
I seem to be managing approximately two squares a week with enough spinning going in the background to keep me supplied with yarn for the knitting. All I will say there is that it's a good thing I'm not trying to keep from freezing in the winter or clothe a hardscrabble farm family of six in warm woolen handknits... but I'll do all right for me.
I have considered starting the seaming of squares (I hate seaming so getting a head start might not be a bad idea, the "Do It As You Go On" approach has been working well for weaving in of ends and blocking) but I think that given the inevitability of variation in shades-of-brown and textures-of-white that perhaps I should get all the squares done and then lay them out all together to find a most-pleasing pattern before I start seaming.
I am planning to number the squares with pinned-on tags after they have been arranged so that I can put them together in the proper arrangement. 1-6 for across, A-G for vertical, a 2 part coordinate will indicate a single square.
I've also considered wussing out and making a halfghan because I'm like four squares away from a halfghan... but I really do want a full afghan and not a halfghan. And I'm enjoying the spinning progress, so that's also motivating. I am only mentioning this because I absolutely love the neologism halfghan.
