Percussive instrument
Sunday December 06th 2015, 11:27 pm
Filed under: Knitting a Gift,Life

Forgot that when you join the knitting ends on the circ to start knitting in the round, you don’t want a mobius strip, much less something with every twist around the needles the little stitches think they can get away with. They were little kids twirling the hulahoop.

Forgot to knit with the yarn from the ball end, not the leftover bit from the long-tail cast-on, for which, by the way, I used far too little on the first try and then far too much just to be sure on the second because my eyeballing the amount like usual wasn’t working so I did that part twice, too.

Then I couldn’t wrap my brain around the very simplest ten-stitch lace pattern that is on my go-to list for brainless carry-arounds–I had to go look it up. Two sets of decreases each side? Is that right? Wait. Okay. Yes (pause) it IS right. And at last I got four rows done and the lace settling into its familiar routine.

My brain is trying to tell me I had a long day yesterday and to give it up and go rest up for tomorrow so it can get better. (The time stamp above is later by an hour than I am.) But at least I got my project started, because beginning anything is the hardest part of all.


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