Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Almost a year

The last time I posted I was preparing to go to Hawaii. I made it. Jet lag sucks. Since then I have quit my Facebook games that kept me away from knitting and have knitted I think 5 or 6 pairs of socks since then. I just finished the socks from hell: ARGYLE! Although they turned out pretty good now that I finished them, the journey was a treacherous one. I started with the prescribed needle size, got through the 1st pattern repeat and they wouldn't fit over my heel. Ripped it out and put it on larger needles. Still a no go. Added stitches. DING,DING, DING! We have a winner.

After that I had to deal with the following: backing up to pick up a dropped stitch; backing up because the pattern got screwed up, backing up because it got a little too tight. Once I finished the pattern portion of the sock the rest of it was CAKE and PIE. The second sock took a lot less time because I wasn't having to deal with trial and error.

The remainder of this month and October, I plan to complete several of my UFOs: The throw I started how long ago?! Three tops, wait make that four, felt 2 totes (that's so easy I can finish that this weekend. I have to go through my stuff and see what else is hiding in there!