Fluttering not flying

I'm slowly emerging from the effects of a horrible head-cold as I write this - strange how it takes getting better to realise how bad you were! Two out of three children have been off school and the husband has also been laid low for the best part of the week. We've run out of Lemsip and were practically reduced to licking the wallpaper like Jeremiah In the Dark Woods. I mention Jeremiah because we borrowed the tape of this from school some three weeks ago. Normally tapes from our school come with books. This one didn't but I've spent the last 3 weeks hunting for the elusive book. At least it meant the bedrooms were tidied thoroughly albeit briefly.

Still, two out of three children are now back at school, the husband is up and about again and I'm staggering along - well, as far as the grocery store and country store - the pigs still need to be fed as do the chickens. Here's hoping I got the shopping lists the right way around this morning....

I managed to get a little knitting done between sneezing fits and it was most of the left front of Butterfly. Why the left front? Well it seemed like a good idea at the time. Now the pattern is just great, easily memorised and knits up quickly. I love the way the chevron striping works with the Noro colours - simple but effective. However, the colours....

I chose Kureyon no. 139 because I particularly liked the purple, pinky shades. The green and brown apparent in the skein was a little surprising especially when knitted up. Now, I know that one of the cardinal rules of working with Noro is to "go with the flow" where the colours are concerned but I'm a little unsure as to where these colours are flowing. I've finished the chevron striping of the front and am about to start straight stocking stitch. Maybe I just need to knit some more and see what it looks like.

This is still on the needles hence the wigglieness of it all..

Any thoughts?

Added Later:

There's a tiny error in the pattern instructions for the left front of Butterfly. The stitch count after the decrease row following the chevron patterning should read 42 not 43 for the extra small size.

Posted by Anita at October 8, 2004 03:17 PM