A Little of This
and a little of that…
I finished my ugly dishcloth:
Gave up on trying to find good light inside and took the damn thing outside to get a half-decent photo!
It’s so awful it’s funny. It makes me grin every time I see it, and I have been using it mercilessly ever since I completed it. I love it, even though it’s hideously ugly and even though I fucked up completely on the last pattern repeat (don’t know exactly what I did, don’t really care — it’s just a dishcloth! How — freeing!). What makes it even better is that I showed a photo of it to my best friend (who tolerates my knitting babble, much like my husband, with patient affection) and he said “It looks like the American flag dipped in hydrofluoric acid.” I cracked up. (I love that I know people who even know what hydrofluoric acid is.) It gives me even more reason to smile every time I see the thing.
In other news (unfortunately with no photos), I have finished the gusset decreases on my second Hedera and will shortly be racing along the rest of the foot — it moves so fast after this point! So my Socktoberfest “celebration” is well underway. I have loved knitting these socks. I think I’ll have two new pair on the needles very quickly — Embossed Leaves, for my friend Lily, and I may try my first pair of toe-ups (most likely for another friend). I already have the yarn for the toe-ups (I’m going to use some stash Elann Sock It to Me in lovely shades of brown), but I don’t know what I’m going to do for the yarn for Lily’s. I may try some of the KnitPicks sock yarn.
A little progress has been made on Icarus — I’ve made it halfway through the fourth repeat of chart one. It’s looking delightful. It’s so easy and brainless right now — but still fun because I just flat-out love knitting with lace-weight yarn. Still, I’m looking forward to getting on to the “real” lace charts. It’s going to be a while, though, particularly given that for a little extra size I’m going to be doing an extra repeat of chart one.
No progress on Mother’s bag (picture red-faced embarrassed daughter here). But I am going to leave this afternoon to visit my family (including Mother) in Orange, and I plan to take only my Hedera (I just can’t abandon it so close to the finish) and the bag. I should have a lot of time to knit, because there will be plenty of folks ready and willing to entertain the boy-child, so maybe I will make some real progress. Maybe even get finished with the body of the thing — what an appealing thought!
I think that’s all the babble I have for today. I’m on my way to pack and I hope I’ll be back with some pictures of finished socks on Tuesday!
