KnittyBug

Not really that hot, I mean it is only June and I know from past experience of living here for a few years that this is actually the coolest part of the summer…..but it’s still hot for me. The humidity today is really getting to me and it doesn’t help that my migraine showed up this morning. The heat just makes it ten times worse. Since we spent all day yesterday outside we decided today we would keep cool indoors.
I thought it would be the perfect time to sew up Brea. Relax and just sew up those seams. But really the indoors isn’t much cooler than outside….because….wait for it………..our air conditioning is set at 82. See her in this lovely mid atlantic state out our price for electric increased yesterday by 50%. Really it’s crazy how it just happened to be at the time when everyone will start using their AC units. So to make the bill a little less of a shock we decided to turn the temperature up during the day so that the AC won’t turn on as much. Now I don’t really like the AC because it just feels like fake air….. but when your inside trying to knit with wool and your fingers and hands are dripping it can get a little frustrating and sticky. Hey maybe the bag will felt. ;)

Anyways this is my seaming process or lack of and my reason for being a little grumpy about the heat and well just about every other thing today. This is the third try…and will be ripped out and started again. See I came to a problem in the pattern or at least a problem for me with the gusset. It said knit until piece is same length as front and back pieces. Ok so it really should just say the length….that would have made the seaming easier. But I just knit the gusset until it matched by holding it up to the front piece and thought it looked like a fit. Well there is another tricky part…how to seam. Do I just try the different methods…which is what I started to do our just do the backstitch method…if that’s what it’s called. Well I chose the mattress/ fake grafting way and I ended up going past the markers on the gusset where the strap is supposed to be. I’m trying to remind myself to be calm and patient and it will click….but remember what I’m dealing with today. Oh fun.

I’ll get I know but it’s hot. Well for some garden enjoyment I battled the humidity long enough to get a picture of my newest bloom on my little hydrangea.


Although it’s not a full bloom it brightened my afternoon.