Ok, my fellow knitters. It's hard for me to admit this, but...until this past weekend, I had gone for over a month without knitting. See, I'd been working on some pretty socks. My sock yarn was wound into a center pull ball. I was pulling from the center. Then it tangled. I tried to tease out the tangled bit from the center of the ball to fix it, but once I got it out of the ball and went to work, it only got worse! It sat on my desk for weeks, a symbol of despair. Finally, I decided that I'd bite the bullet: I'd just cut out the tangled part (unfortunately, quite a lot of yardage) and get a second skein to make sure I had enough to complete a pair of socks. To celebrate this decision, I wound some Malabrigo into a ball (by hand, since the skein was too big for my crappy swift), and started up work on my scarf again. But I wanted to get back to the socks, so I hit Windsor Button to get some more sock yarn and take up work on that cute little sock again that was coming along so nicely.
Unfortunately, that backfired when Windsor Button proved to be out of that colorway.
Now, I'd have simply ordered it online or something, but I am going on vacation (starting this afternoon!) and need a small knitting project that I can bring with me for the long car ride and for any lazy time sitting and sipping coffee with friends at the campground. I didn't want to bring something big and heavy, and I REALLY WANTED some socks. So I got a skein of the same sock yarn in a different (and actually, somewhat nicer) colorway, and cast on again. I have saved my half-sock and the rest of the old yarn, and will eventually finish them. But now, I'm starting fresh. I'll have something to work on for my vacation, and most important, I am back on the knitting wagon!
Incidentally, I also pinned up the shoulders of my cardigan body so I could try it on, sort of, and it seems to fit when I wear it over a shirt. This pleases me: I was afraid it would be too big. Then again, I DID purposefully make it sort of tight when I did my calculations, figuring in the possibility of weight loss. Rock on. Now I feel more confident that I will actually finish it someday. :)
To the ladies of the MIT Stitch 'n' Bitch: I will see you all NEXT Thursday at noon! I will be starting my new position that day, so I may be a little late if training carries over a bit, but I do have that hour free in my schedule. Yay!
