the blue blog archives: the purple fluff

What can you knit when you're so sick, you've got no energy, you're head hurts so much that you can't think straight, and you can't really look down because your nose is constantly running? A stockinette stitch sweater in a fluffy nose-tickling angora yarn. You can't bore a woman who's been trapped either on the sofa or in bed for four days; any activity is welcome - even miles of stockinette stitch. And what's the angora going to do? Make me sneeze? That'd be an improvement.

So, very slowly and only in my best moments, I've started the sleeves of my purple cotton angora t-shirt sweater.

I couldn't think about where my normal length circular was without my head hurting, so I'm using the 16" circular that I could find. And I my head wasn't working enough for me to remember that I had been knitting this sweater continental, but I got gauge, so there!

It is cheering me up though to be resurrecting this sweater. I had tossed it into the UFO pile because I thought it was going to be too large (the pattern gives you quite a bit of ease!), but since seeing that little blue line on the pregnancy test strip, I'm thinking, hey, a little big is maybe a good thing. So if I get sleeves on this sweater, we could be wearing it to Rhinebeck!

posted by alison at 9:30 am | in purpley

Comments

Get better soon, Rhinebeck is coming fast!

Posted by: lorinda at September 14, 2006 9:44 AM

Aahhh, poor you! Hope you feel better soon :)

I'm just boring myself to death with the weasly sweater, but I eventually finished the back, and I'm slowly working my way up the front. Scary intarsia letter getting closer every minute....

Posted by: Helene at September 14, 2006 9:48 AM

That sweater will be gorgeous! and not to mention I bet warm...

Posted by: Michelle at September 14, 2006 9:53 AM

I love that color! I have never met you but am having disturbing fantasies of patting your sweater.

Posted by: Lucia at September 14, 2006 10:39 AM

You never welcome a few extra inches and pounds until there's a baby on the other end of it. This would be a perfect Rhienbeck sweater! Knit on, but not at the expense of some healing sleep.

Posted by: Johanna at September 14, 2006 12:32 PM

Oh, Alison! I hope you are feeling better soon!!!!

Posted by: Elleh at September 14, 2006 12:51 PM

Two days after I got pregnant, my nose started running--and it didn't stop until I gave birth. No one had told me about that! (And with my second child, I canceled some elective surgery because my nose was running, and the docotor thought I was nuts! It was so early, a blood test didn't show I was pregnant, but I knew--yes, I knew!)
Take good care of yourself!

Posted by: Barb in Sudbury at September 14, 2006 2:19 PM

My internets go down, and I see I've missed a whole bunch of pregnancy.

;-)

Congrats and I hope you feel better soon.

Posted by: claudia at September 14, 2006 4:21 PM

Sorry you're not feeling too hot....congrats on the new bean, though!

This is gross, but I usually just shove a tissue up my nose and leave it there when I'm home sick. It's not very attractive, but it works. LOL.

Posted by: Sharon G. at September 14, 2006 8:43 PM

Yikes. Feel better SOON!

Posted by: Ina at September 15, 2006 8:28 AM

oh I hope you don't have to suffer with this cold very long! :( getting a finished sweater is a good thing though, and that one looks like it's going to be gorgeous :)

feel better soon!

Posted by: Meg at September 15, 2006 2:37 PM

oh my goodness, congratulations!!! Now you can enjoy some of those empire waisted fashions like your own lovely Rosebud sweater :)

Posted by: Juls at September 17, 2006 9:47 PM