The back of the Greek pullover:



That's a pretty true-to-color shot (I am using the color Rowan calls "Crush Velvet," which I've said before bothers me as a color name - it should be CRUSHED velvet. "Crush velvet," as I said, sounds like a command. Or it sounds like a really unappealing type of soft drink ["Velvet Crush"?]). But anyway.

I started the front last night and got a couple of inches done of it.

I enjoy having a big expanse of stockinette, with just some minor shaping to consider, to do. I like knitting stockinette. I can put music on, or watch something on the television, or even read while I knit. If I'm tired, or distressed, or borderline sick (and I was all three last night) it goes more easily and is more soothing than something that requires more concentration.

It also gets done faster than some other knit stitches and that's comforting in its own way - that you are making progress, that you can SEE the inch or so of fabric you've added.

Most of the sweaters I've made have been mostly stockinette. I realize I've also not really made any multicolor sweaters, other than ones that use row-by-row striping - I don't like Intarsia that well, and I'm still not satisfied enough with how my gauge works out with Fair Isle (it seems to be a lot more variable than my gauge knitting with just one color...sometimes it's too tight, sometimes it's too loose) for me to want to knit Fair Isle just yet.

(I do, someday, want to make the Prince of Wales vest that's in Folk Vests. Being an Anglomane, and particularly an Anglomane-for-the-time-between-the-World-Wars, a Fair Isle vest or sweater in that style seems like an extremely wonderful and stylish thing to me. And yes, one of the characters in the Campion movie I watched was wearing a really neat Fair Isle sweater. No, I'm not obsessed enough to use Pause and to try and chart it out; the idea of making a similar sweater using an already existing pattern is enough. But that's still a Someday Project...for when I'm more comfortable with Fair Isle, and when I've worked the existing stash down somewhat.

It's nice having Someday Projects though; it gives you something to look forward to).

I'm also almost over my cold, which is good. I still have the sore/scratchy throat, which I could honestly live without, but at least I'm not congested any more.