Weekday WIP

Whirr, whirr, continues the brain, full of all the things I want to do but constrained in a tiny box called 'only 24 hours in a day'. And of course now it is exam season so nothing can happen for ages, apart from those two MSc assignments that are haunting me. Obvs that's why I'm here, writing this, because I should be going to bed and I've been sitting at my computer for at least 12 hours already today. Exam meetings have all moved online. Cannot believe I have to get my own lunch, don't they know who I am?

When I haven't been at my computer, I've been plugging away at this summer linen top that I cast on at roughly this time last year, did the ribbing on and then set aside. Naturally when I picked it up, I remembered nothing. Why was I knitting the size up? Why was I using a smaller needle? Why had I seemingly not used a smaller needle on the ribbing? And so on. Of course, I did not rip back. Nobody has that much desire to do 1x1 ribbing in 4-ply linen, that they'd willingly do it twice. Its sins will be blocked out. THEY. WILL. 

I got this linen at Wonderwool last year, five skeins of Namolio 4-ply and one teeny skein of glitzy orange thread, which you can see carried along here and there. It's showing as orange in this picture, but in real life the bit that really shows up is the sparkle. I think I might be a bit past very sparkly things (it's less club, more cruise at this age, if I'm honest - no shade) but I love the odd bit of sparkle it is providing and I particularly like it against this very sack-like beige, which in turn makes the coral really pop. I knitted the ribbing and therefore neckline and armholes (will be) in the beige rather than the coral, even though I bought three coral skeins and only two beige. Another wacko decision from past Sally. What was she thinking?

Nevermind, because this is the little top that does not eat yarn, probably since it has no sleeves. It's a Tolsta tank top which a square neck. I've finished the front and am about eight stripes off finishing the back, which will go quickly as there's a decrease on every right-side row; I'm still on my first skein of coral and not very far at all into the second skein of beige. Very economical, and quite quick: I took this to Oxford with me and predictably did nothing to it until I came home, so it has only taken about three weeks to get to this point. It might actually be finished in time for the summer.