Garden as Safe Space

This blanket won’t knit itself. My goal is one hexagon a week. Dot is thrilled that for the moment we can share it.
I am finding it a little boring and hard to get back into. Thankfully there’s Midsomer on the DVR.

Finished column 5! Finally. While I haven’t been knitting on it as much as before, I use it nightly when we sit at the couch. Sometimes forgetting and sitting on the needles.

knitting this project is mostly paused as I focus on a family member in hospice. It’s on my lap when I’m actually home in the evening. the current hexagon has been in progress for a month. I was nearly done when I realized I had made a new decrease formula.

Shadow and this family member received their diagnosis the same week in May 2021.

cancer sucks.

slowly. four columns complete. fifth and sixth in progress.

Finished longer column 3.

Finally completed the longer column 2. Adding 5 hexagons to original length, it’s slow going.

Blanket is inching forward, am working on other projects. Also new couch is longer so I'm going to need to make this a bit bigger!

Finished col 4! I'm beginning return to work on other projects which means slower progress here, but that's ok. My finger is still sore from the kitchen misadventure.

Slow progress, current completed count is 42 (21%), almost finished col 4. My left pinkie had a run-in with the apple corer. It's sore and awkward to knit.

Almost finished with col 3. Current completed count is 31

Wrists acting up so trying to go slow and rest.

Finished C2! Total count 27 hexagons out of estimated 118 needed. ~14% complete.

It doesn't fit on my studio couch.

Worked more on coding this notebook than knitting. Continued on col 3.

After rolling 3 of the same in col 2, I began col 3. That meant rereading the pattern and I figured out I misread the joining instructions which is why col 2 was consistently off by a sneeze. I’ll leave it. I’m not perfect.

Slow progress, on col 2. I’m now Optimally Immunized, we got our boosters yesterday and my arm is a bit sore.

Let’s go col 2! Revision: if I “roll” the same (coin 1) after 3 in a row that shifts to the next column for a few hexagons.

continue on column 2.

finish set-up column, begin column 2.

Cont on set-up column current plan is to make something to keep on the couch, to replace a throw that’s 63in/160cm wide x 47in/119.5cm. I’d like it a bigger, so current plan is 18 columns of 11 hexagons each. We’ll see how it goes. Dot is learning how to model knitting.

CO first hexagon and begin set-up column. My gauge depends on the yarns I use, hopefully it won’t be too drastic and work out. After first hexagon, rep from SU2. Weaving in the ends as I go (à la Xandy Peters)

Gathered & de-tangled initial yarns, predominantly scrap and otherwise orphan fingering weight skeins. Greens will be predominant with “garden floral colors” for accents. I have more of these yarns than I realized.