The Dweebmachine

 I have been so remiss in posting, but as I said in my last one, work became overwhelming so I retreated from everything. In fact, I was so stressed I couldn't settle on a knitting project and I started several that I didn't finish. Happily about 2 weeks ago I emerged from the doldrums and finished up a couple projects and even made a blanket! This will be more of a catch up post of things I've done over the past couple months. I finally finished that 40's waffle sweater! I love it on my friend I made a blanket using super bulky chenille yarn from Dollar City (Guatemala's answer to Dollarama) While binge watching seasons 11-13 of Doctor Who (Jodie Whittaker is my favorite Doctor), I had the idea to make a scarf using the 4th Doctor's pattern in 13's colors. Super happy with the result I started a sampler blanket using a random picker wheel for color and stitch The cotton mitered square blanket is still underway

I have had this post as a draft for ages because the life of a preschool teacher can never be predicted. I was in the doldrums for a long time, but I'm back! Hopefully that means more blog posts... Anyway Back in late January (just after my birthday) a friend of mine from Ireland came back to the US. She'd been stuck at home because of COVID, so she only just got back from Christmas. As a birthday/Christmas gift she gave me some beautiful Irish wool in dark speckled green and a grey-white. The quality is amazing and I absolutely LOVED working with it. Well, a few days after she gave me the yarn I had a dream...a song to sing...No. No going off with Abba lyrics. Okay, so I had a dream of the sweater I would make with it. There were a few variations in the dream, boat neck, long sleeves, no sleeves, mock turtleneck...but there was a deep green ribbing and a thick white, thin green stripe on each one. I thought about the weather here and decided to go with a sleeveless mock turtle