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Slow progress

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I’m a thrower when I knit.  I’ve tried to knit  continental but I have a hard time with it.  Practice makes perfect, however I don’t want to change knitting styles in the middle of a project as my tension/gauge changes.  

I’m more than half way into the left hand chart on Ms Ida Chain Link mittens and it’s slow going right now.  Thanks to the little mishap the other night, the bandage on my thumb is getting in the way of the yarn and the way I hold my needles.  The yarn gets snagged on it every other stitch.  

Plus I’ve tinked, frogged, unknit at least an entire mitten during the process.  Knit two rows, tink one.   

I can’t seem to keep my place or read the chart correctly.  I have the chart on my magnetic board with a magnet above the row I’m knitting so all I have to do is follow the bottom edge of the magnet.  I even put a little “x’ to the right of the row I finished and yet I keep knitting the previous row.  

Ms Ida and magnetic chart

 

I blurred the chart as it is copyrighted material.  

See the mess on the other mitten?  Since I didn’t like the pointiness of the top of the mitten, I shortened it by five or six rows.  I’m doing the kitchener stitch on the end and I just haven’t tightened up the stitches yet.

I spy…

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I love reading other people’s blogs and looking at the photos they post.  It’s like a little window into their lives. 

Yep, I’m nosy. 

I like seeing the sweaters, shawls, scarves, hats, quilts, dresses, socks, kids, dogs, plants, food and whatever else you are posting about.   I also like to see what’s in the background.  The books, the mantle, the wine glass, the coffee mug, the tea-cup, the half done jigsaw puzzle, the pillows on your chair or sofa.   I like to see what plants you have in your garden, the arbor, the fencing.   Oh, you have the same deck furniture as I do.  Love that lamp on the table in the background.  Cute stitch markers.  The window to your life. 

My photos aren’t too good.  Some are out of focus, some are too dark, some are both!  I’m wondering if it’s me or the camera.  The camera I’m using has been dropped a few times and I’ve noticed I can’t get the clean edges anymore.  

I try to crop my photos so some of my cluttered life doesn’t spill into yours.  

One of my pictures on Facebook has me sitting on my motorcycle trying to look cool.  In the background were the dead flowers in my porch boxes.  So I had to do some magic to make the mess resemble live flowers.  It’s not the greatest job but it’s better than the brown disaster that was there. 

New flowers

It’s Friday already?

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Really, I have been knitting on the FBS.  I’ve just got a lot of other things that have been taking my time away from knitting this week.  I have only half a sleeve left to knit on the February Baby Sweater.  I really need to get this off the needles tonight as it is a gift for my granddaughter’s first birthday.  The party is tomorrow.  I still have to find buttons for it as well.

When faced with finding buttons last year, I decided I would make my own from polymer clay.  I bought a little oven, pasta machine, roller, blades, extruder, and a few other things that I have someplace.  I made buttons for sweaters for E&Z.  I think they are on one of my FO pages.

Can I make three buttons tonight after I finish the sweater?  Or will I have just the right thing in my button box?

And pictures!  Yes, I must remember to take pictures!

Gap closed

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So Mr. Aitch and I went for a longer than planned motorcycle ride yesterday.  We left around 10:00 am and got home around 4;30 pm.  The weather was P.E.R.F.E.C.T.   We made a loop from our home near the Potomac River, over the Allegany Front, through Mountain Lake Park, Oakland, Terra Alta, Kingwood, Reedsville, Masontown, and finally to Morgantown.  The return trip was a straight line on I-68 east.  When we stopped for lunch in Morgantown, I stuck my gloves in my jacket pocket and discovered a swatch for the sweaters I knit for E&Z (the twins) last December.  Why was the knitted swatch in the pocket of my motorcycle jacket?  I have absolutely no idea.

I got on Ravelry to see if I could find a good way to close the gap on the February Baby Sweater at the sleeve join.  When I got to the “gap”, I picked up more stitches than called for.  It took some help from a crochet hook after the first few rows but I have no gaps.  I hope I can get the rest of this sleeve finished today and the other one finished tomorrow.

If I can get my card reader to work, I will post pictures.