The thing about knitting a sweater is it takes a fair amount of time and while progress is definitely made it seems slow due to the size of the project. My mom's Blaithin sweater is coming along nicely, but it's the slow stockinette "things don't look too different" phase and I'm a bit discouraged. To help alleviate this feeling, I decided to take a break from the sweater body and start a sleeve as that is the next step in this sweater's construction. And since I still have troubles knitting with double pointed needles (I discovered my pulling the yarn too tight is what is causing the ladder effect), I purchased a 12 inch circular needle from Chiaogoo so I could seamlessly knit in the round. Well, let me tell you it's awesome! I knit the above 10 inches of sleeve yesterday with ease and their are no ladders to be seen. Yay! I've tried 9 inch circulars for sock knitting in the past and my fingers cramped up quickly, but the 12 inch seem to be fine in that regard. So, I think I am a convert and will be knitting my in the round sweater sleeves like this in the future. Ah, more needles to collect :)
I'm not reading anything presently, but I'm thinking of getting this book to help conquer the mess which is my house. It has pretty good reviews and being from Japan with their small housing spaces (small by western standards) I think it might be a good match to our own tiny home. Many western De-cluttering books have solutions for your home office, but not your home office/dining room/computer gaming room which is how our house functions. It's not our living room. It's our living room/ craft room/ exercise dance space/ music room. See where I'm going with this? Well, I feel it's at least good enough to download to my ipad for a read as the wait at the library is some 600 requests long and I certainly don't want to buy another book to add to the clutter ;)
Joining in with Nicole for Keep Calm Craft On and Ginny for Yarn Along.
