The fifth and final KAL during my quarantine time is called Sheltering In Place. It is from Andrea Jurgrau of BadCatDesigns. I am almost finished with mine. I am on chart 8 of 9 and have the border and edging after that, I will have plenty of yarn though, which is nice to know. I am using a lace weight yarn in 100% alpaca. It is from a ranch that is local to me called Enchanted Fibers Guild LLC. It is a nice gray, 2 ply yarn. I have 2 skeins of about 100g each with 875 yards in each skein.
Here is a picture of my progress.
Last week I finished my Fan Shawl from Crafty Flutterby. The pattern is the Twisted Minstrel. I still haven't blocked it, but will soon.
Two weeks ago, I finished my Quarantine Release project and forgot to share it. They are the Flores socks from Joji Locatelli. I enjoyed them. I even followed the directions instead of just using the stitch pattern with my usual recipe. I like the way the heel is and now I have more understanding about sock decreases as a mirror knitter. I will share more on that in the future.
I have put some more pictures and an update on the sweater page.
I have posted a short on picking up a dropped purl stitch here. In it I mention my LYS as Longmont Yarn Shoppe. While I love that shop, it is 92 miles away and that seems extravagant during this pandemic. The LYS I mention in this blog post is Knot Just Yarn, which is only 51 miles from home. Same as Walmart and Natural Grocer.
On August 4th, I will be releasing a new pattern. It is the first in a series of four. It is called Spring. The collection is called "Seasons of Sophistication". They will be available individually. When they are all released they will also be available as a collection for a discount.
All four pieces are the same garment, a shawl with sleeves. The shawl is a Pi shawl worked from the center out. All the pieces have the same center. The motifs differ from there depending on the season. I chose motifs for each season that remind of that season here in the Eastern plains of Colorado. This collection has been a long time in coming and I am excited to finally see it getting published!
I've been hard at work on few other designs as well and will even be putting a call out for test knitters for one of them in the next week or so.
CoViD-19 is still keeping us mostly home. My daughter and I did go to a spin in at the LYS. It was masked and distance but still nice to be around people. We are getting near to when school should start, we don't have a start date yet here for Byers...
Many of the predictions I have made about CoViD-19 along the way are beginning to come true. The only prediction that I made that didn't happen was I thought that they would never shut the USA down economically because we wouldn't survive it. Well half true I guess..
The others...
That because CoViD-19 is a corona virus, like the common cold, you will be able to get it again, it won't be one and done.
There will be no cure, it is a virus.
The summer months are not going to make it any less prevalent. Look how hard it hit Australia in February 2020, a very hot summer for them.
I understand the feeling torn on what to do right now. The numbers here in the states, real or not, compared to those of other countries show that we shut down too late, not hard enough and not long enough. I understand that our government is different than many, most other countries out there. I also understand that Americans are very spoiled and selfish. This shut down was for public safety reasons. I know logically looking at H1N1 of 2009 and we did nothing really makes you scratch your head at this.
Where the government is and what they are doing or not doing right now is causing both loss of life and loss of the economy. There isn't an answer for the US that will preserve both, it is going to have to be one or the other. With numbers going up and the government not doing anything, looks very irresponsible.
My current prediction for CoViD-19 is a bit more long term. It will never be totally gone. It is going to be added to the list of 4 corona viruses that cause the common cold. It will be that some people die of the common cold each year, like people die of the flu each year.
My other prediction is on herd immunity. That if the number of cases keeps doubling at the rate they have and based on current US population, it will take until about September or October of next year, to reach that 70% ish mark. I doubled the current death rate to a full 1% and that makes a loss of about 2 million people.
I know loss of life is hard, devastating, it is part of life though. We can't live forever. Am I saying that we should be reckless and just say forget it all? No I am not. I have no problem with the masks in most situations. The situation I'm struggling with is having to wear it in the hospital while in labor... As a woman who went through natural, but induced labor 3 times, I can't imagine trying to breathe that way.
I think having virtual doc appointments when possible is good. Having shopping hours for people in high risk categories, yes. I think that this country not being open 24/7 is a good thing and we need to get back to more of that. Eating out is a fun treat, not a way of life. It's time for Americans to slow down and get back to basics.
I'm praying that the things we have done and learned during this pandemic will be applied in other areas of life. As a pure life educator I'm really hoping people will apply these same principles to their sex life.
Be smart, be kind, stay safe and until next time...
Happy making!
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