Now that we are past Labour Day, it really feels like a new season is starting. Summer is over, and autumn is here. This of course means that there are plenty of new projects on the go. I’ve been spending quite some time this summer planning, and I figured I would have a lot of time to work on the new projects once the kids started school. I was off to a bit of a rocky start – school started on Tuesday, Sept 7, and instead of plunging into my new projects, I had to spend the day in court as I got called for jury duty/jury selection. After several hours I was excused, and was allowed to go home instead of becoming a member of a jury for a trial estimated to last several weeks. Instead I’m reading about the trial in the paper.
Anyhow, after all that excitement, I got the chance to start on some of the new projects and continue on some older ones yesterday. The best part was designing a new scarf using the CashSilk from Sweetgeorgia in Boysenberry. My scarf will use only one skein, but the pattern will be easily adaptable to a larger stole. I’ve been pondering the design for about two weeks, and finally charted it yesterday. I can’t wait to knit it up. I’ve got the first few rows done already…..
I also spent some time writing up patterns that I have been working on during the summer and are being released in other venues during the coming months. Formatting to stylesheets other than my own can be a little tedious, but of course the various publishers want their own formats for the patterns. I still have a few more patterns that need to be “massaged” this way, but I’ll try to space it out a bit, and work on a few other things in-between.
