Went to Michaels again last night to get some more of the variegated cashmere so I can knit a sweater for Maya. I've finally made the final choice of the dolls that will be coming - I think - and there will be five: Lonnie, Nami, Byuri, Maya and Elin. Just plain mid 20th century children - no fantasy or historical stuff. I decided that Elin's light blue sweater looked too "doll-like" on her, so started another in teal green. The sweater for Maya is an earth-tones variegated yarn that's almost the exact same colours as his vest. I managed to squeeze him into Lonnie's sweater so I have a visual for where to lengthen and widen my already altered knitting pattern. The cuffs and bottom band will be the darkest brown in the variegation, so I unwound the ball of yarn to the wanted colour. I'm hoping I can finish the first sleeve before reaching the dark brown again, since I don't want to waste a whole colour sequence before starting the second sleeve. Maybe I'll just "top up" the sleeve with some of the unwound yarn so I won't get into the dark brown.
I really hope I can finish these two sweaters in time, as I have quite a lot of other things to still do this week. If not, I'll just take the knitting with me. There's bound to be plenty of "waiting time" and the ferry itself takes over five hours - that alone is enough to do half a sweater.
The lobster traps are coming along nicely, although they are very time consuming in that I can only glue on a few wooden slats at a time before I have to let it sit and dry. This morning I accidentally knocked over the varnish for the styrofoam floats, and it went all over my pile of wooden slats. So I had to scrub off all the spilled varnish and put the slats in the sun to dry.
Well, better get back to it - the
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