Plan Interrupted

The year has just begun and already I am unfaithful.

I swear it was my knitting that rebelled, not I.  I managed to get the right front of Linden on the blocking board but somehow my tool bag, the one in which I had unwisely put ALL my stitch holders, had disappeared.   So Linden was still on the needles, the circular addi turbo I had available in the correct size.

I did look, but the tool bag was not to be found.  

And there, sitting right beside my knitting chair, not yet introduced to the rest of the stash was this lovely blue Froehlich special Blauband sock yarn.  Not only that, my first pair of socks accidently got entangled with my husbands pants and he threw them all in the wash together.  Apparently a fierce battle ensued between one sock and a zipper/hook and eye combination.  The poor sock was outnumbered and emerged mortally wounded.

Obviously it was time to start knitting a new pair of socks.  When I looked at the yarn I knew exactly which pattern I wanted to use: I who swear that plain socks are best,  wanted to knit the Fancy Silk Sock pattern from Nancy Bush's Knitting Vintage Socks.

I am having a grand time knitting these, although I still have to have the pattern in front of me so it is not really a traveling project despite its diminutive size.  I am probably going to go back Linden soon anyway.

A stitch marker leapt off my knitting today and rolled away.  It was very small, 1/2 inch in diameter or so, and I have yet to find it.  The search did however turn up the missing tool bag, which had gotten itself lodged way back behind the sofa.  I wonder how it got there, I certainly didn't push it, and unlike a stitch marker, I don't believe it rolled.  

Now I am lured away from responsibility by the call of two projects.  Thank goodness the rest of the UFO piles remains muzzled.

Comments

[Gina]

The knitting knows when it's being unattended, and it doesn't like it.

[Liana]

I'm glad you found your tool bag. It's maddening when things like that go missing. Very pretty sock! Have you ever tried cutting a straw into rings for stitch markers? They don't seem as "springy" as others, and if you lose one, it's not a big deal.