After what feels like a thousand false starts on this cardigan, I’m finally seaming up the sides. I still have the sleeves to knit, but I was eager to start piecing it together. My intention is to wear my Ruby to my mother’s wedding, which was originally planned for next month, but was pushed back to September so the venue would be open again. I suppose a wool cardigan makes more sense in September than it does in May, but my thought process was that Ruby was my ‘someday I’ll be good enough to knit that’ sweater, and I decided that someday would be in time for my mother’s wedding. Yeah, I can be a sentimental sap sometimes.
Realizing that it’s still probably going to be quite warm in September got me to thinking about seasonal knitting. Back when I worked at a craft store I noticed that there were hardly ever sales on yarn during the spring and summer, which made me notice that there were apparently knitters who did not knit year-round, or at least the corporate higher-ups who determined the weekly sales advertisement thought people didn’t. I was baffled. What do people do with their free time when it’s warm out, then? I knit year round, and knit anything at any time. Lace shirts in winter, wool cardigans in summer, I knit what I want when I want! Unless I have a commission, and thankfully with the beach cover-up done I don’t currently have one. Which is nice, II’ll admit. It’s like required reading for school. I love to read, but if you tell me what to read, i’ll won’t want to do it. Same with commissions. I love to knit (clearly) and crochet, but the thought that when I get off work I have to work on one specific thing and only that… I’ll do it, but I’ll grumble all the way. But, because I’m a sap and I love to challenge myself, if someone asks me to make them something special I’ll do it. But, it’s nice to be selfish and knit for me right now, even if it’s a wool sweater just in time for summer.