We had a quiet Christmas break. We ate far too much (especially sweets and chocolate!) and I drank as much alcohol in two weeks as I'd have in six months.
I'm glad to see the end of 2018, Except I'm not sure how 2019 will pan out - my parents aren't getting any younger or healthier, ore is my brother. My mum had a call from the doctors on the Sunday 23rd, telling her to get to hospital, so she spent all day Sunday having tests and all day Christmas Eve having blood tranfusions. Urrhg, Most people find knitting comforting when there's a crisis. I lose my knitting mojo, which might explain why I only finished 23 items in 2018, rather than the 40 I planned.
I didn't do much knitting over the Christms period either. I hd about a dozen attempts at knitting MrC's Christmas socks (in DK!) and kept having to frog them back. THAT was due to alcohol. Not only can't I knit when I'm really tired, but now when I've had a few drinks (not even a load of drinks!!). He ded get his socks, but the knitting was done during the day before we cracked open the wine!
The only other bit of knitting was the Dust of Snow stole, third attempt. This time I'm using my Skein Queen Advent yarn, carried along with Kid Moahair/Silk. I have made SO MANY MISTAKES! Dropped stitches, forgetting I was meant to be in stocking stitch/garter stitch. Vut it's impossible to frog with thie mohair. I'm leaving as is, will remind me of 2018/2019! I'm hoping htat the mohair blurs the mistakes.
I've made a few modifications:
- garter edging instead of i-cord. I prefer the stretchier sides, and the i-cord looked a bit odd with plai cast on and cast offs.
- Not doing the fading between colours. These skeins are smaller so I don't get as many rows out of each skein to ;lay with fading.
- I'm doing the closed ripple pattern, not bothering with the various other ripples which involve yarnovers ad they're more of a pain with doubled yarn. I've knitted a few of the yarnover patterns just to try them out.
- when I knit the closed ripple, I'm doing a CDD rather than a left leaning double decrease
- and increasing with a kfb rather than a m1r and m1l. With the mohair it's not necessary.
Oh, and another very annoying thing I keep doing is dropping one of the yarns! I have lots of inch long strands (on both sides) which I've ended up just cutting off and hoping things don't ryb!
My New Year's knitting was a Sockhead hat. MrC complains aobut his bald patch getting cold when he's over at the boat. So I thougth I'd knit a lightweight sleep hat. My firt attempt was frogged (last ngiht) as I'd dropped a few stitches on NYE. I'd picked htem up but they looked scrappy. He actually texted me yesterday to ask me if I'd knit him a hat for bed!! I'll cast on another this weekend, My plan is a loose fitting 4ply hat, but he thinks that a small skull cap just for the offending area will suffice. I thnk it'll fall off! No experience with sleep hats...
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