Recently I cast on a little shawl with some green variegated yarn that just wasn’t doing it for me. I liked but it wasn’t what I had in my head for this yarn. I’m still not exactly sure what it’s supposed to be but I do know it needs to be brightened up, so I’ve found a couple of solids to pair with it.

The turquoise is by the same dyer so I know those will pair nicely. The green was supposed to be a pair of shortie socks but I think it might look really fun with these other two. So what to do with them? I’m thinking I might start with the same pattern and just modify it a bit – do sections of garter with the variegated and sections of eyelets with the solids. I don’t think I want to keep the same number of rows as the pattern says – I want to alternate differently-sized sections and add more eyelet rows. I don’t know for sure, and I probably won’t until I just start doing it. So that might be my goal for the weekend.

I haven’t gotten much farther on my Back to the Fuchsia houndstooth shawl – just haven’t had the brainpower for it. I’ve been waking up almost every morning around 4 a.m. For a while that’s when Grace was telling us to get up, so maybe my brain is anticipating it? But now she’s quiet until 5 or 5:30 – which is kind of good and kind of not (when you realize it’s because she’s just declining a little more) – so I would really like my brain to get with it and let me sleep longer. Between the sleep deprivation and a full work week, I only managed simple knitting during the week. I keep thinking to myself, “oh when things calm down…” but I’m not sure that every really happens, does it? Yes, at some point we won’t be caring for a terminally ill dog, but there’s always something.

Anyway, I do hope to get back to the houndstooth over the weekend as well. But if I don’t, that’s okay too!

Happy Saturday, friends.