I finished knitting the final sleeve of Passel Wednesday very late Wednesday night. I refused to go to bed until it was done even though my head was falling back on my chair between stitches on the bind-off row, luckily my stitches stayed on the needles, the needles remained firmly in my hands, only my head rolled around willy-nilly.
Of course that determination meant that I had nothing to knit at knitting group/class Thursday night. And since I didn't start looking for a project until about 5 minutes before departure, the odds of my successfully gathering the necessary tools to start something proved to be quite low. I had a few plans. There was yarn that I didn't feel like winding. There was a pattern for which I needed to buy yarn. I bought the yarn and discovered I had the wrong needle. Bummer.
Luckily there was a sock languishing in the bowels of my knitting bag. Summer is not sock knitting time for me, but now that there is a promise of crispness in the air, socks seem like a possibility again. At first I was reluctant, but now I am happily knitting away...hauling that sock around town today, sneaking a stitch here and there.
Still, I think I really need to make an effort to get those sleeves on the blocking board tomorrow....there are still ruffles to knit after all. Then, done with white, I can truly delve into color.
Passel is looking beootiful!
ah, but knitting ruffles. ack, I've got my Debbie Bliss Ruffle Cardi on the blocking board now, ready for seaming since she dried a week ago. By the time I got that ruffle knit around the front and neckline, it was summer here, so she went into hibernation.
Ah the fun of ruffles - the fun of 1000+ stitches per row.
I bet you get a few socks done while contemplating the ruffle.
OH, let me know when you check in to Ravelry. I just use Marji there, it's easiest.
Posted by: Marji | Wednesday, October 03, 2007 at 06:26 AM