Season to knit again...

Just like gardening, soap making or cooking...there are times when I just want to knit.  But for some unknown reason, it left my desire for a while, and now it's the time, it's the season.

There is something completely therapeutic about feeling the wool on my hands and the movement warming up my hands with busy activity.   The familiar repetition and muscle memory is soothing to me in many ways and the  gentle calm distraction is welcome to my busy mind.

I thought for sure that I would just delve into something simple and circular.  But I found myself seeking out simple lace and cables.   I started a shawl a year or so ago.  This wool... Alpaca and Lace - Blue Sky Fibers is delicious.   How is this wool laying around and not becoming the beautiful wrap it was meant to be?   Tomorrow I resume this wrap.

In my office desk I found another abandoned project.  Currently  I am  knitting on this lovely    Reverisble Scarf  at work on my "down time." It is a simple heathered wool by Cascade and a nicely challenging pattern. I find it odd that  I fell into a beautiful rhythm with this project that only months ago I put in my desk with zero intention of completing.
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I also returned to my many project bags and ran my fingers over many projects .  I was drawn to the the cables on this cable sweater Fulmar.  It calls to me, and yet the California Sun is a reality of my life in the oh-so -warm Northern California Valley and there is probably never a time that I would wear this and not melt.  And I wonder if that is why the project became abandoned (NO, not abandoned, it was merely  marinating).

I have it sitting out now, I believe it will call me back soon.  Working on the many cables is an invigorating challenge.   I seem to welcome that right now.  For some reason my hands are relaxed with the cables instead of tense.   Perhaps it IS only knitting and I have nothing to loose and everything to gain.  Especially when it has sat in a project bag for over five years.

All apologies for the not very stellar photography on this post.   I guess the focus is on the knitting and how happy I am to have busy hands again.  I just need to make the time because I already bought the new chair, and took a day off.

So picture this.....A chair by  a big window, close to the kitchen with bread baking and a Hound Dog at my feet. (who am I kidding, he will be across the room on his own private loveseat).  What music music will play?

Then I will get out and do some running on the side of mountains because that IS everything too.
Have a beautiful week.