Rip and re-knit? Not this old chick!

As before, here is the blended fiber sweater which has, somewhere, "gang agley." Now, if you are squeamish, skip over the next picture. It may cause the overly sensitive to feel all oooky.


Yep, we cut through three vertical rows of knitting and then snip the first stitch of the first row of cotton after the tencel, bamboo stripe. I'm going to insert a couple or three inches of cotton over the shoulder, and extend the rows of vertical knitting along the edges.

Here I am picking out that first row of cotton and picking up stitches as they come free. further photos tomorrow as the work progresses.


On other fronts, DH, bless his princely heart, took me shopping on Saturday because I am going nuts trying to find some black or charcoal grey silk yarn somewhere in the city. Do you know why I can't find it? There isn't any here!! Moreover, no one is eager to order any for me. So, to console my frustration, we made a stop at Lush for a bubblebath fix. They have the most sophisticated, hedonistic bubblebaths, which all come in dry cake form. I'm stingy, so I take a five dollar cake of bubble bath and break it into five or six pieces, crumble my small portion directly under the running water, then apply my wire whisk to the frothing mass to get five or six baths from what is intended to be bubbles for one. The fragrance is blissful, all natural, and cruelty free. I used to be in love with the one called "Hot Milk" which has a vanilla, almond, cinnamon sort of whiff. but now, I am enamored of "Green Day" which is an artfully composed blend of cedar oil, rosemary, maybe a little clary sage . . . I reallllllly didn't want to get out of the tub! So what is my favorite fragrance? Generically, it would be lavender. Specifically, it would be my sleepy DH on Sunday morning. But for comercial fragrance, it would be Lush's Green Day bubblebath.