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Felt bad, getting better

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In my last post I wasn’t feeling too well.  Sometimes I think it’s just all in my head.  Not this time.  Well, part of it is.

I have a sinus infection.  But that’s not why I ended up going to the doctor yesterday.

Have you ever heard of serum sickness?  Me either.  It’s similar to an allergic reaction to a vaccine.  Yep, the pneumonia vaccine made me sick.  Very sick.  Go figure.  This is supposed to keep me well and it makes me sick.

The medications for both the sinus infection and the serum sickness have started to kick in and I feel better today.  Not great, but better.

I was still able to knit.  I’m making the Tangerine Twist cardigan by Susan Todhunter.  Isn’t that little wave pattern cute?

Peony Twist

From the comments on Ravelry the waist shaping wasn’t quiet right.  Looking at the schematic, it doesn’t make sense so I’m making my own adjustments as I knit.  With my head full of yucky stuff and my body aching my math was a bit off.  I may have definitely started the waist shaping too soon.  Like three inches too soon.  So I will frog back 10 rows (oh, that hurts) and redo the shaping.

Peony Cardi

I’ll still be 18 rows to the good.  And it’s better to do that now than after the sweater is done and doesn’t fit the way I envision.  Right?

10 day work week

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This week seemed like it was 10 days long.

Yay!

I had a lot of hurry-up-and-wait stuff going on at work this week.  I had to put together 10 binders of materials for a meeting Wednesday evening I was not attending.  Most of the documents needed updating and I had to wait for those to be done before I could print.  I filled the copier with paper before I started printing the materials and it holds 3000 sheets of paper at a time.  I refilled it yesterday.  That’s a lot of paper.

I’m headed to my daughter’s right after work tonight.  She and one of the twins (Z to be exact) have bronchitis.  Her husband has to work this weekend so I’m going to help her do whatever needs done.  I’m even taking dinner.

And Irish soda bread.  It’s only available around St. Patrick’s Day and I love this stuff.

I hope to have some time to knit so I’m taking a few things to work on while I’m there. 

  1. The neckwarmer.  (See the last post.)  This has been slow going.  Of course, I have been pretty busy every evening this week: laundry, Zumba class, running errands, laundry again, packing.  So you can see I haven’t worked on it too much.
  2. A new sweater.  Tangerine Twist from Knitty Summer 2007.  I bought yarn last summer for a project that escapes me so I have enough yarn for this.  I think this shape will be much better for me than the papaya cardi fail.
  3. Mitts for me.  Treads, Jiffy Mitts, or Fetching using yarn from my stash with enough to make all three pair but I’m not going to cast on all of them.  Treads has a new stitch to learn.  (Thank you Cpeezers for this great tutorial on the lateral braid.) Jiffy Mitts uses fingering weight.  I’m still not over the two pairs of Music Mitts I just finished.   Fetching has cables which I’ve never done.  I’ve been knitting off and on since I was 10 years old and I’ve never done cables other than a swatch.
  4. Seamless slippers.  Pattern on the right.  Mindless knitting and one can never have too many seamless slippers.

Have a great weekend.

In agreement

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Ta-da

I think we are all in agreement that my papaya cardi is a fail.  For me.  I still like the sweater but not on my body.  I should have known that I don’t look good in a swing-type style.  Loose and swingy is not me.  Tight and ultra fitted isn’t me either.  Shaped with a little ease, now that’s me.

Looking back I think that’s the reason I was having such a hard time finishing it.  Deep down inside I knew it wasn’t right for me.  I knew from the schematic that it wasn’t the right shape but I started it anyway hoping it was more fitted as I knit. 

I am looking for a pattern that has more shaping through the waist, not too long and not too short, shawl collar (V-neck), 1-3 buttons to define the waist and can be made with the amount of yarn I have. 

Knit Picks Wool of the Andes, worsted weight, 10 balls, 110 yds/ball.

I’ve found some that are close to what I want but not quite there.  Maybe I should design the thing myself…

In the meantime, do you hear frogs?   Rip-it, rip-it, ribbit?

Nothing

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I have nothing on my needles.  N.O.T.H.I.N.G.

I finished my papaya sweater last night and I want to block again.  The bottom edge was still curling even with the crocheted edge.  I hope that cures it.

I tried the sweater on this past weekend and I wasn’t loving it.  I hope I will after all the time and effort that went into it.  Blocking can only cure certain things…