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Knitting? What's that?

Joke :)  There has been a little knitting progress but it's more a case of one step forward and two steps back. Currently I'm on the two steps back.  I knitted the first sleeve of Icefields on Saturday (so quick when it's going well and it's dk weight), started sleeve #2 on Monday evening, tried to do some knitting last night - big mistake,  I was very tired and kept dozing off mid round. needles near tips. When I'd finished my half hour dozing and picked up my knitting again I found I'd dropped just loads of stitches. Some near the decrease seam, which meant lots more stitches freed up, and odd ones all around the sleeve circumference.  The yarn doesn't appear to b a slippery one with running stitches, but that's exactly what has happened.  I presume the twisting of the sleeve as I knit has caused these runs, and it's not worth trying to pick up the runs, the knitting is too distorted,  Which means tinking. Even then I keep dropping stitches, too impatient!  I don't want to try to frog ad it's top down and I've already had the pleasure of reknitting the sleeve stiches on the raglan yoke, when my cable holding the live stitches came apart and I didn't notice for a while...

Not quite in the naughty corner yet but might be soon!

Still no photos.  I commute in darkness and by the time I'm ready to take a phoe at the end of the day it's too dark!

In other knitting news I hadve a dk sock on the go, for me. I tend to wear thicker socks in the house (they're a bit too thick for all of my boots though).

I really must knit a few pairs of socks for MrC. I knitted him two pairs ealrier this year (for his December brithday and Christmas) and have lost them,  The only thing I can think of is that MrC saw them lying around in the bedroom and thought they had been washed and not put away!

And once Icefields cardigan is finished I intend knitting accessories. We have Knitvent coming up, and the Indy designer KAL on ravelry.  Not forgetting the half a dozen cowl patterns I'd earmarked last month!

Time to get casting on!

 

 

Another two weeks goes by...

I can't believe another two weeks has gone by. I fully intended to blog early last week, but had decided to take time off to go home for a fmaily visit, and ran out of time.

I didn't even have time to sort out what knitting I'd take with me and ended up only taking some sock yarn and my Icefields cardigan.  Still, not much knitting done!   I have a very active and inquisitive 18 month old niece. Knitting stayed in my bag, behind the chair every time they popped in. Her elder siblins are so calm in comparison!

Icefields - good and bad news. 

The bad news - my tension is way off and it's a bit big. I've decreased some stitches near the bottom and will wear it as a cozy cardigan rather than one with not much ease!

The good news is that I've finished the body and just need to do the seleves.

The bad news is that i'm a bit worried aobut running out of yarn.  I have about 150g of dk left. Will this be enough?? Thankfully they're top down.

The other bad bit of news is that the bottom of the body (20 rows of garter stitch) is TERRIBLE.  I had it on shorter needles, and kept putting it down mid row.  There's at least half a dozen dropped stitches and I had to just pick them up on do a reverse stocking stitch pick up as no crochet hook!  I may well redo this part. Let's see how the yardage goes on the sleeves.

I've also started som dk socks, just of mindless knitting. I'm goint to try the heel from the pattern Vanilla is the new black. Mindless knitting.

I'm still looking at cowls, resisting casting on unti I have a bit more sock knitted and the sleeve established. 

And that's it,  no cowls cast on (yet), soooon!

 

I'm still here!

I fully intended blogging last week, but time ran away from me (and I couldn't settle with any knitting, spent last week casting on cowls, frogging, looking for new patterns etc.

On Saturday I made mysself sit down and cast on a keeper cowl  I'd wound up four skeinso f yarn and was determined to use one of thsoe as I've lost hte labels (again).  I'm using Countess Ablaze sparkly sock blank.  the pattern is one of those cowls which start off as a shawl, it's called Midsummer Haze, and I've worked the shawl bit and am now working the actual cowl bit, in the round. 

Sunday I picked up my Icefields Cardigan which has been put aside for a few weeks. I didn't want to leave it any longer and wanted to get the yoke bit done. I did! 

Just as well. Monday I dropped my phone down the (clean) toilet.  I'm gutted. THree days later all that happens is that it heats up if I try to charge it.  I use my phone for everything. Everything.  I have a laptop, but MrC uses that. I ahve a Kindle dire but he also uses that to watch films whilst over on the boat.   I use it for personal emails (all four addresses), browsing,  and not forgetting my useful apps for Twitter, Ocado, Audible, Amazon books and films, podcasts, tv. all the various travel apps. Urghhh. Even the calculator and banking.

Not forgetting phone calls and texts! We don't have a home phone, so when MrC's at the boat I'm stranded!  It is really odd not having any communications.  We  have Alexa though.  Alexa can do reminders. you tell her the time, and what the reminder is.  Well MrC sent a 'reminder' via his phone last night. Just reminding me that 'this is MrC checking in'.  At least we know that if my family call him in an emergency he can pass on the message via Alexa...

I daren't alter some of my passwords and detials in case they send a verification ot my phone! 

We don't have a printer at home, so if I want t print out patterns I'll have to do it from work, and so far I've ran out of time!  I've decided though that I'm goihg to wrok on the obdy of Icefields, some socks and possibly find a bit of time to get the cold weather garments out of vacuum packs and into my wardrobe! .

Still cross that i did NOT backup my phone. I'm going to have to reentrer EVERYTING!