Rogue is kicking my ass. Not in complexity or difficulty — I’m actually finding it a fun, easy, just-complicated-enough-to-keep-my-brain-engaged-knit — but in time. I knew I was a slow knitter, and I knew this was going to take a long time, but DAMN. The rows are just so long! I’ve been making little mini-goals for every day — and I do mean mini-goals. On the order of “finish three rows today” or “get through one of the side cable repeats today.” Slow and steady, right? I keep telling myself that anyway.

(Please excuse the poor photos that follow; my camera and I are fighting with each other.)

Here is my progress as of today (I have just finished Chart A and split to do the fronts and the back separately):

And a couple of details. The side cable:

And one of the pockets (this also shows the hem, which I’m quite happy with):

As if the achingly slow progress weren’t enough — my right wrist starting hurting me on Tuesday — hurting me very badly. I freaked out about possible RSI, but the reality is that I was trying really hard to try and make my knitting more “efficient” by changing the motion with which I throw the yarn. I actually like that way of knitting better, but it hurt my wrist. A lot. I don’t know if it’s because my wrist just needs to get used to it, or if it’s because my wrist can’t handle that particular motion. I’m not quite ready yet to put it to the test (especially since I really want to work on my Continental knitting anyway, so it might not be worth it to change my style of throwing). Either way, I rested my wrist for 2.5 days (that was a long time for me!) and started knitting again this morning, and it seems to have resolved itself for now (though I’m back to my old way of throwing the yarn, which involves a horribly inefficient total release of my right needle, but oh well. One thing at a time.)

I went to a new doctor on Wednesday, and I’m on a new medication (this brings my grand total up to 8 different medicaitons daily, and at least 4 more on an as needed basis). I feel so broken and old. But, hopefully, the new medication (metformin for my PCOS, which I’ve been wanting to get on for several months now) will help with a LOT of my issues and will allow me to ditch several of the other medicines. It’s all about trying to find the ROOT cause of the problems, fix them, and then hopefully the others will fall in line. Unfortunately, the metformin is making me feel really yucky (I’m told that will get better with time) so I don’t know if any real progress in knitting is going to be made anytime soon.