Monday Morning

Bonehead moments in knitting:

Going to the yarn shop on a Sunday afternoon to work on the Rebecca cardi ties. Get there, unpack sweater and realize that the yarn for the ties is still at home, on the couch. Ooof. A sure sign that you didn't start the day with enough coffee.

Luckily, I did have a secondary project with me. This is a diamond-patterned baby blanket, using a reversible seed stitch diamond pattern out of one of the stitch pattern books I had. It fit the bill because it was both reversible and easily memorizable. I'm using up some Cotton Fleece I have had in the stash for a while, since an ill-fated attempt to make Kyoto. The color is putty -- a nice dark ivory:

I worked on this on the train to and from Philadelphia, and it was nice soothing traveling knitting. It also seems to be going more quickly than I expected ... I'm already about 1/5 done. Yay!

So, I knitted on it a few more rows at the happy place, and then picked up the cardi ties when I got home. Actually, just one tie. Wow. Stockinette strips are boring... and too short to really be mindless knitting, since there's all that switching direction involved every 20 stitches. I got about halfway through the long tie.

[This picture strangely reminds me of an elephant.]

I also continued my schizophrenic-project day by knitting about a dozen rows on the linen lace swatch. Only a few rows left, but I started to get tired so I put it down. (I'm smart enough to know that lace + tired = BAD.) Anyway, stay tuned; the lace swatch results should come in the middle of this week.