It's been a busy week so far and this isn't even the week I'm going to write about.
Last week was also on the busy side. Lots of concerts at work though that equals lots of time to work on knitting. Last Sunday, the 6th, I picked up Fruity Tulips again. I've made an insane amount of progress on them this week. I had finished the cuff and the set-up for the leg (this would about the first 30 rounds).
Here's a photo of it from yesterday morning, the 15th.
Turns out that the pattern was much easier than I had remembered it to be. Once I got into the rhythm of it, I was speeding along my needles. Husband doesn't like how the color is knitting up. He calls it radio static. It's a good thing I'm making these socks for me then as I love the color. This is my Christmas yarn. Not only do I love the color, but I love how it feels to knit with it.
I also got Waves of Love off the needles. I completely screwed up the last row before the bind off, but I'm going to hope it still blocks alright. It's not officially finished yet because the ends aren't woven in and there's that whole blocking thing. I wasn't able to weave in the ends because I couldn't find a tapestry needle anywhere. I looked in the tool drawers and the little hippo pouch my youngest bonus daughter gave me for my birthday but I couldn't find it. Since I needed to go pick up a pattern to make a costume for Husband and I (it's a secret at this point; all will be revealed at the end of November), I figured I would also pick up some more tapestry needles.
Saturday we were suppose to have people come over and do crafts with us. I was going to work on the costume and other people were simply going to be around. On Friday, people started canceling. Things had come up, which I'm well aware of how that works. By the end of the day Friday, no one was able to make it. We ended up taking the dog to a dog park (I was in a foul mood and a bit grumpy knowing I had cleaned my craft room and the universe wasn't letting me see people) and spending time together before I had to head to church to run the lighting. That was fun because there had been a maintenance call that I couldn't make because of work. Turns out to be a good thing I was scheduled to serve this past weekend because I'm the fastest at programming. When I got home from church, I finally got fabric laid out to cut and I wasn't happy with how I was going to have to lay out the fabric. I finally figured out a way to get the right look (and create only a little extra work for myself) and pinned the first section of the pattern to the material.
As it was now getting late, I decided to cast on the next pair of test socks I'm going to be working on. They're going to be called The Angels Have the Police Box because of the color work in the design and the colors I've picked. It's my first time doing color work on socks. I pretended to do some stranded color work on my first pair of mittens (reminder: must start mittens soon; Winter is Coming) but this is the first time I've used an actual pattern. I got the cuff cast on and started the first cable row. I reached into my hippo bag to get a cable needle and what do I find? That's right. A tapestry needle. I swear the bugger wasn't there the day before! Once I got the first repeat of the pattern cuff done, I decided it was bedtime.
Sunday, Husband and I went to see Wicked. He thought about bringing his cane to practice as we walked to the theatre. I told him that if he did that, I'd be bringing my knitting along. We both left the house without our toys. Sunday was also an exciting night because the next morning I was going to go to my first ever knitting class with Ann Budd. More about the class in another entry but the most important thing I learned from that class (there were several) in regards to my year of projects is that I purl backwards. So that lovely sock I got so far on? I'll be frogging that sometime in the next day or so because I'm now twitchy knowing that I'm doing things wrong on it. (I decided to look up how to really do a yarn over and I do those wrong as well). I'm not going to frog Fuzzy or Waves of Love as one is nearly finished and one is off the needles and even closer to being finished, but I will be frogging the new test socks as well.
