How Bright Am I?
You get a wonderful inquiry e-mail about knitting a project for pay. It is a fun sort of project, but from what you know about knitting construction you suspect there is likely intarsia involved. The project is knit from 100% cotton. You’ve never knit intasia before. Do you accept?
Of course! It is knitting for pay, right? I did accept and that means the knitting going on the end of last week and this week I can’t share with you really. Though here is a shot of the inside of one of the areas of intarsia. I’m not sure if it is the extra “stuff” going on at the join of colors that makes it appear great from the right side despite the fact that it is unforgiving cotton or if it just wasn’t the big deal I was making it out to be in my head. Either way I’m about to wrap up the main knitting on this project.
Because it is all cotton knitting with a deadline I’ve had to develop a way to keep me working on it in smaller chunks so I don’t aggravate my hands and wrists. My technique was to introduce a different sort of project to work back and forth on so I’ll give you some glimpses of that later in the week.
In house news, DH has one side of the *last* interior door to varnish and we’re done with doors and frames for the time being! Yeah! The frames for the master bedroom and bath are unstained and hence unvarnished, but we decided to wait to stain the frames until we could open up and air out. The varnish smells, but it isn’t nearly as bad or as lingering as the stain. I can’t wait to have the kitchen back! :-)
