I love Spring. Spring doesn’t love me. It turns my brain to mush. I have all these things I want to do, and I can’t think well enough, or long enough, to do any of them. I finished these socks…

and would like to work on my blankie…

but even the effort of choosing colors for a new square is too much.

Soothing spinning to the rescue. I can enjoy the change in color, but I don’t have to orchestrate it. I’ve already determined how I’m going to spin this batch (it’s Blows Smoke merino from Hello Yarn), so I don’t have to think. I just let my hands move back and forth and back and forth.

I am knitting, but I won’t bore you with a picture of black garter stitch. It will eventually be a short sleeved cardigan, jazzed up with some cute buttons. I spent most of the past two days swatching different stitch patterns, and finally decided that if this was ever going to be knit, garter stitch was the ticket. Mmmmm, mindlessness.