Shades of Grey / Harmaan sävyjä

I decided I'd finish my Urban Aran Sweater, which I started in the spring and left waiting, when I had to finish other, more important projects. I always figured I'd finish the UA eventually - I suppose the time had come. I cast on the stitches for the front and back on Friday, and I've reached the underarms already, so I am making rather fast progress. I find the UA a bit boring and dull, as a design. I squeezed in some excitement by making my own modification and knitting a cardigan instead of a sweater, but I'm truly bored already. But, then again, it is the perfect knitting for these very warm days, as you really don't have to think about it.

And the yarn isn't so tempting as it once was, either. The yarn is KnitPicks Wool of the Andes in Lake Ice Heather - an impossible yarn to photograph as it seems to be something between very light blue, very light grey and very light purple. I try to think of it as a shade of grey but my camera, as well as PhotoShop, apparently disagree very strongly.

Mie alotin sitten sen Urban Aranin, ajattelin tirpaista sen loppuun. Se jäi kesken keväällä, kun tärkeämmät jutut ajoivat sen ohi, ja olin aatellut neuloa sen joskus, sitten kun joudan. No, ilmeisesti se aika on nyt, tuleepahan tehtyä pois. Loin silmukat perjantaina ja nyt ollaan kainaloissa, joten vinhaan tulee valmista. Malli vain on vähän tylsä, vaikka muokkasin siitä villatakin enkä -paitaa, ja lankakin on vähän tylsä. Se näyttää useimmiten hailakanlilalta, vaikka koitan kovasti ajatella sen olevan vaaleansiniharmaa. Ehkä tämä kuva näyttää värin kaikkein osuvimmin, vaikkei ihan kohdallaan olekaan.


And yes, I am using my stitchmarker, the one I made only a while ago. Pretty!

Ja oma merkkihän se siellä neuleen seassa killuu:


I also started something a little more exciting and challenging (although basic Fair Isle and basic cables hardly qualify in the Most Challenging Knitting category). I like both these colors, they are very nice greys - the other almost a blueish steel grey, and the other a brownish, natural and beautiful. These'll be mittens and wristwarmes, sometime soon.

Aloitin paria käsineprojektia, että olisi edes jotain (pienempää ja) haastavampaa neulottavaa, vaikkei peruskirjoneule ja peruspalmikot mitään kovin haastavia olekaan. Kauniit värit molemmissa, toinen on ruskehtavan harmaa ja toinen vaalea teräksen harmaa.


And I know I told my SP pal I'm not really interested in sewing, but somehow I couldn't leave these three fabrics in the store (well, they're closing, so what can you do?). In Finnish blogs, there's been an ongoing craze over Weekender bags, and I might sew something like that of that brown and white fabric. Or the blue one. So, my pal, you see, I am interested in sewing - I'm just not very good at it :)

Oltiin Sulon kanssa kangaskaupassa, ja enhän mie voinu näitä jättää sinne, varsinkin kun kauppa lopettaa pian. Näistä tulee jotakin Weekender Bagin tyyppistä, joskus.