OK, I think I'm done with my slump.
The green tank, done, and being gently blocked!
I kept putting off finishing this was in part because I had this whole plan involving charting out the decreases because that way everything would be exact, and maybe adding some sort of knitted on edging to the armholes, and...
Yeah, none of that happened. Instead I made myself just start decreasing for the armholes, and did my best to keep track of what I'd done. And it more or less worked.
Now, yesterday when I pulled it on before washing it, it fit just about right. A tiny bit shorter than I'd have expected, but otherwise nearly perfect.
I think the blocking will definitely give it extra length; that's the way this fabric pulls... down. So I'm blocking very very gently. No pins, as you can see. Instead, I decided to just push it into place, to flatten the lace pattern a bit, and generally just to guide it towards its ideal shape rather than make it go further than it might want to go.
If I'd finished a day or two earlier I'd actually get a chance to wear it this summer, because it's really quite warm out today. And MY HEAT IS ON. Ugh. I've attempted to shut off all the radiators (I have really a fairly tiny apartment, in which there are FOUR radiators, three of them gigantic), but they're still throwing off heat. It's unpleasant, and bad for sleeping.
Now, I shouldn't complain, really. It's obviously better to have heat in Canada than not. But, still. This is too much.
Sigh.
That hasn't stopped me from starting something new that'll be quite warm and cozy, though.
A couple of Estes Park Wool Markets ago I bought this lovely wine red boucle (the sun makes it look brighter than it is; it's really a gorgeous deep red), and have finally started something with it.
It's going to be a fairly simple long tunic with probably some sort of scrunchy neck. I'm making it fairly close fitting, I think. There are a few rows of garter at the bottom, and then stockinette. I'm not yet sure whether I like the stockinette or reverse stockinette side better, but I won't have to deal with that until I get to the tops of the shoulders, really.
It's also going to be very holey and airy. I'm using size 15s, and there are only 68 stitches a row. (It's circular, because there's no freaking way I'm seaming boucle. Been there, tried, that, frogged an entire sweater twice in frustration.) So, in other words, it's going to be a fast knit. This is about as much as I knit in two episodes of Farscape (thanks B, season 3 got here) during several points of which I had to stop knitting and gape at the screen a bit. This could be done within the week, honestly.
I also finished something else up last weekend, but it's still hidden until it actually arrives at my mom's house. Late, sadly, because today's her birthday.
Happy birthday, mom!