What's Next?

What's Next?

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With the Silky Wool Cardigan finished, I postulate to origin planning my side yesteryear side project.

God Forfend...

Couldn't perhaps imagine beingness "in betwixt projects" when it comes to my knitting.

I'm non certain I desire to accept on exactly about other sweater immediately.  I definitely don't postulate a sweater together with I discovery it hard making a sweater that Thaddeus looks practiced inwards together with enjoys wearing.

Knitting a scarf or shawl or lid for arts and crafts demo sales seems together with then out of season.  It's together with then hard knitting something that has no feel of urgency to finishing it.

I get got the Millard Fontenot blueprint for The Brethren Sock that I'm working (see below) together with I've too got the Knitted Sheet that volition endure an ongoing WIP for years.

Should I become dorsum to the sweater projection that came inwards minute the concluding fourth dimension I surveyed yous all?

The minute alternative was the Briar Rose yarn called Wistful.

It looks similar I get got well-nigh 2,000 yards of worsted weight yarn (50% Alpaca, 20% Merino together with 20% Silk).  Maybe I'll swatch it upward to encounter what I tin come upward up with.

Current Knitting

As noted previously, I finished the Silky Wool Cardigan.

The neckband is merely a metro of stuff inwards contrary stockinette run upward which is slightly wider at transcend than on the breast together with the follow photos demo the item downwards the centre of the sleeve together with upward the centre of the breast on either side of the push band.

And hither is my progress amongst The Brethren Sock (have yous favorited it on Ravelry yet?)

This isn't typically my type of sock projection equally it requires a lot to a greater extent than attending together with counting of rows, but the stuff is turning out to endure thick together with lush together with I'm enjoying honoring Millard equally I knit it.

Bicycle Helmet Or No?

Bicycle Helmet Or No?

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The comments generated past times these posts never appeal to me, because it either feels similar I'm listening to advice from an alcoholic cousin who throws caution to the wind, or I'm hearing from the most anxious moms on the planet.

Pros together with Cons

For the kickoff yr or together with then that Thaddeus together with I were bicycling, nosotros didn't article of apparel a helmet.

Most of the enquiry on wearing a helmet seems to betoken that at that spot is no discernible create goodness to wearing one, although at that spot is a lot of personal experiences indicating folks were glad they were wearing one.

Pros
- Protection against caput injuries
- Protects agains facial injuries
- Protects expensive eyewear
- Lightweight together with easy-fitting
- Helps repose worries for people who worry similar my mom

Cons
- Seems to live on a lilliputian to a greater extent than sweaty together with itchy than a cap
- Expensive
- Looks airheaded when I article of apparel it
- Potentially offers lilliputian or no protection
- Baseball cap offers to a greater extent than Sun glare protection
- Gives wearer a faux sense of security

Almost all of our bicycling is done on the canal towpath amongst really lilliputian endangerment of existence striking past times a motorcar or getting run off the road.  However, inside the final few months, they've unopen downwards a department of the towpath, requiring us to cycle on well-nigh a mile of route that has a actually bad shoulder.

Based on the novel route, I opted to start wearing a helmet...for a unlike reason, Thaddeus has decided to article of apparel i too.

Current Knitting

Two KAL's going on correct now.  The Finish The Dance Cowl to create goodness the LGBTQ homeless shelter, Lambert House:

And the North East Men's Fall Knitting Retreat Slipper Sock KAL:

Splitting my fourth dimension betwixt ii projects has made for somewhat slower progress, exactly I'm loving both projects, together with then I'm enjoying the extended knitting time.

Readers' Comments/Questions

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