Yarn Along

 

 

I've been feeling a bit restless in my knitting this week.  Life seems so crazy, and I'm hurtling through one school project after another, that I felt like I needed some "instant gratification".  Quite a while ago, a friend was fed up with her own project, and put it in a yarn swap we both took part in .  She was working on socks, and had one sock finished and the other underway.  I snatched it up, thinking I would probably rip it all out and do something different with the beautiful, hand dyed yarn.  This week, though, I pulled it out, ripped it back a bit to figure out where she had been in the pattern, dug out some needles, and carried on.  The pattern is Spring Forward, and I believe the yarn is from an Etsy seller who is no longer dyeing yarn.  Which is a shame, because this is lovely.  Now the big question will be whether or not I get to keep these socks, or if they are meant for someone else...

 

I've heard from many people, in the Yarn Along and elsewhere, that A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is an awesome book, so I had to pick it up.  I haven't actually started it yet - I'm waiting until I finish the school project I'm currently working on.  I find it very effective to have some kind of reward dangling like a carrot in front of me, and at the moment this book is my carrot.  How do you motivate yourself to get things done?

Comments

[diandra]

so happy you're knitting these!

[Hege]

Love the colour! I started reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn a few years ago, but I never finished it. I think the start was a bit to slow for me...

[Sara]

It is a complete shame she is no longer dyeing yarn...that sock is gorgeous!!!

I have read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn several times and I really like it. I should go and read it again. Wonder where my copy is....

[erin]

Glad you are continuing the socks, they look pretty.
I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn when I was a teenager and then again when I was older. Loved it, very touching. I wish my local library keeps these old books. They seem to stock only new titles these days and horrors (to me at least) they sell the books away every few years!!! It's very difficult to find old titles in my library these days :(

[julie k]

I've wanted to read that book, too. Just put it on my library wish list. Love the sock. They yarn is beautiful!

[swanski]

I love the colorway, too bad they are not dyeing yarn anymore. I think I did knit that pattern.

[Patty]

I've knit that pattern! Looks terrific from here. My Mom was a big, big reader and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was her favorite book. I've got it on the shelf, maybe I should give it a try!