Finished! (No, not the sock.)

I did a doodle in steel blue mohair two-ply. It’s fuzzy and soft and light. Circular scarves are easy, especially when you realize that’s what you’re making because the circular needles you grabbed on your way out the door to the airport were about four to six inches too long to make a hat. So after a few rip-outs I just made the circumference larger and decided it would be a neck thingy you could wrap over your ears if you wanted to.

k4p4 for about an inch, k7 rows, p2 rows, k7 rows, p2 rows, k2p2 for about an inch.

About 6 stitches to the inch, a nice loose hand that still gives a little spring to the fabric.

Like I said, totally a doodle that I made up as I went along.

I was playing with it and discovered that it can also be pulled up over my nose for those cold mornings where the air’s biting your ears and lungs, but you’re walking along fast enough to overheat if your parka’s got the hood up and is zipped. (It’s all in how you layer things.) I’ll try it out our next cold day.

 

 

Gumption

I have a heel flap!

I finally forced myself to sit down and muscle through it, after getting a second opinion on the instructions. I’ve got 3 needles with 64 stitches between them, half on one and half of the remainder on each of the others. It had me swap them around for some reason, so I needed to make sure it meant the big one when it said “needles” rather than “needle” (consensus was “yes”).

It’s not pretty, and it looks like I’ll be grafting or something in the not too distant future, but I now have 31 alternating rows of sl1 k1/sl1 p31.

Now if I can only figure out why I’ve got extra stitches on the fourth needle.. if I follow the directions for the next row on what’s left I still end up with one stitch extra even with the p2tog.

Hmmm.

It’s still on the needles.

I’m not dead, just very very busy.

Your project still counts as “in progress” so long as it’s still on the needles.  That’s my story and I’m sticking with it. Progress has been almost undetectable, but extant. (Dust adds mass and volume therefore the sock has increased in size, ergo I have made progress! Unless there’s been equivalent evaporation as it sits there drying up from loneliness and lack of sockiness.)

It’s getting cooler (except today when it’s supposed to hit 84F) and the leaves are trying to change. This reminds me that I’m not sure I’ve still got a hat. (We moved in July, and I think some things may have escaped to freedom during the packing process. Gee, if I had time to knit I could make myself one.  I shall now sigh dramatically, and hope there’s a box full of warm knitty things somewhere in the house, and return to studying instead.

Bad knitter, bad!

No, I did not bring knitting with me to the Adirondacks for five weeks.

I realize it sounds like a perfect opportunity to get a goodly bit of rows finished, but it was far from so.

Now I just have to find my yarn and needles again somewhere in this 3D maze of boxes. (We are moving this weekend, so again: no knitting happening just at present.) Those poor, poor socks. He’ll have outgrown them by the time they’re done. His hands are already as big as mine and he’s taller than my sister, probably as tall as my mother, and gaining on me! I’ll need an extra skein for his socks by the time he’s done.

notabit

Okay.

I’m officially stalled.

I need to get out the stitch directory and figure out what the hell the directions are trying to tell me I should be doing. It’s probably very simple, but I’m still unraveling from the semester and have to pack up and giddyup in less than a week. I’ve got roughly 1/3 to 1/2 of one sock done to date. This “life” thing just keeps getting in the way of my knitting. Scarves and hats are much easier. You just start knitting and make stuff up as you go along, then you stop when you feel like it.  Socks have rules, which I have not yet learned.  Funny how you don’t always automatically know how to do everything instinctively and well, isn’t it?

Inch by inch, row by row

“… these socks are going slow.

I’ll never find the toe,

as the yarn goes circling round.”

It’s my own fault. If I just stopped studying, quit school, and concentrated on the socks I’d be done by now.  Tsk tsk.

 

Two by two, socks of .. um..

Blue and brown actually.

 

Last night before bed I knit two rows.  That’s the first time I’ve laid hand to needles in about three weeks.

(I posted to the wrong blog last week or you’d know that by now..)

It’s amazing that house hunting on Spring Break can completely suck up your time almost as badly as studying does.  Both are bad for the knitting.

Five. Maybe.

I think I’m up to five inches after last night’s row.

 

Go me.

Putputputput

So at one row per week.. I should have a pair of socks done by the time my son goes off to college. When his feet will be too big for them.

Okay, in the spirit of full disclosure I actually got closer to four rows done over the weekend, but it was a close call.

Slowly, slowly, slowly said the snail…

Okay, we’re up to about 4″ of shank on one sock.  I’ve got this “school” thing that keeps interrupting my knitting.  I should really rearrange my priorities, shouldn’t I..?

 

“Socks or studying? Go!”