June Dreaming

It’s been a challenge for me to dream of a future ever since three years ago, so I went for a walk in the woods and decided to share with anyone who cares to join my rambling footsteps and thoughts. By the way, in talking about my work history, I mentioned one job I had was “pre-internet” for interlibrary loan. It was not. It was in the mid-1990s when a small company in Seattle called Amazon was just beginning to talk about selling books online and libraries were saying this crazy thing of uploading content of books to the internet was happening. Feel free to knit or simply imagine you are walking with a friend in a restorative place.

The longest video I’ve made thus far, it may only appeal to three people or none. But yay, there are sheep!

I’ll have a purely knitting focused episode next up as I’ve set a goal of swatching up the vest design in my head to encourage myself to just do it, as well as share projects I really hope to complete.

As someone who dropped out of a public health degree last year, I am thrilled that I am being interviewed by a cancer organization regarding the role Medicaid played in both my child’s and my own survival. Anything to help preserve the closest thing our country has to healthcare for all (in theory at least, if not all providers accept it due to hoops they have to jump through).

By the way, in case anyone is wondering what happened to my stash wool I tried to auction to entice Knit For Food Knit-a-Thon donations to no avail, my niece and fiber artist accepted the stash and in exchange donated to the children’s hospital that saved my daughter’s life in my name. Win-win all around. Thanks, Annie!

In knitting news, one thing has become obvious to me I did not know before: My immune system does not like alpaca. Each time I picked up my beautifully soft Purl Soho Linen Quill (linen, wool, alpaca blend) to work into the first summer tee I ever tried to make for myself, I felt gradually sicker and sicker, my throat became scratchy, I started wheezing, and nose became stuffed. So sadly, alpaca is now added to my list of untouchable fibers!

Mohair is already on the allergy list, so I procured some alpaca lace to replace that for a cardigan. Anyone want some turquoise alpaca lace? Let me know, and I’ll give you the deets of yardage, etc.

I am going to attempt to complete the Lanikai tee in short knitting bouts outdoors with fresh air, and hope to gift it to someone else to wear.

It’s a lovely, well-written pattern (linked in caption), and my version will have a mix of blues in stripes due to using the three skeins I had on hand from a massive sale a few years ago. Once it’s finished, I hope to make a new one with different wool-cotton blend.