So, I’ve been working on this gift for a friend. My “Super Secret Christmas Exchange Project”, aka the SSCEP. I have the perfect hand-dyed yarn. I know what I want to make. I find a suitable pattern.
I get three inches done, and hate it. So I frog the whole thing and find a different pattern.
On [...]
My day off yesterday was spent knitting and ripping and knitting and ripping and knitting, with a nap thrown in for good measure.
I worked on my SSCEP all day long. I abandoned the original project I was doing, because about 1/4 of the way through, I realized that the pattern, which had a definite “up/down” [...]
Yay me!
I shut and locked my office door at lunch time, and rather than napping, as is my usual, I worked on my SSCEP (Super Secret Christmas Exchange Project) like I said I would.
And, I finished 12 rows! I finally got over the mistake I kept making, and am now making visible progress.
Back to my [...]
Here, (picture deleted) finally, is the picture of the Opal Masterpiece socks for me. These are the ones that I knit at least twice, because I didn’t like the way they fit, or I didn’t like the toe-up bind off, etc. They’re done, and I plan to wear them sometime this week.
It was a fairly [...]
Another busy morning. I had my monthly neurologist appointment this morning, which wasn’t really a bad way to start the day. It meant I could sleep in an extra hour and miss most of the morning commute traffic.
The appointment was quick and easy, and I have another new medication to try. But, we’re also going [...]