Too much un-knitting is going on here
I would show you progress shots, but un-progress has been about the only thing made here. I was happily knitting along on Ene, thinking how close I was to moving on to the next chart. I'm almost embarrassed to mention what happened then. Dare I show what a doofus I was? What say all? Man, you guys are vicious! Don't you care how tender my psyche is right now? Aren't you worried that I will lose all confidence in my knitting ability, OK, chart reading abilities, by baring my soul to the world? No? Somehow I knew you wanted to hear all the gorey details.
OK, so thinking that I could follow in Donna's wonderfully talented foot steps, remember, she's already done her Ene's Scarf, I cast on and merrily knit through row 22. As I started row 23 I noticed the difference of a "center" stitch. Hmmm, what was that center stitch for? Oh, right, to mark the center of the triangular shape. There is a double decrease there. Yeah, I remember that. Wait, my piece doesn't have that center point. Oh no!! That's because I didn't do a double decrease there! I didn't even follow the chart. See, I really am a doofus.
Seems I can't follow instructions. Although in my defense, there isn't any instruction written that tells you to mark st #x as your center stitch. It's clearly shown on the chart and the note tells you to PM at center st. It's just that you have to do the math and then count to determine which it is. The Flower Basket Shawl, of which I successfully knit 2, was started at the neck down. You were told to mark st #x to determine where the increases fall to make the shape. When starting with a small # of sts, it's easy to find this center st. When working a large # of sts, it's not always easy. But there really is no excuse for my lack of skill. It was a truly Doh! moment. Since there has been little progress from the restart, I won't bore you with photos. I am worried that this yarn won't survive another ripping! And from the little I did knit up I can see that I will need 1 more skein of the Misti Alpaca to finish this scarf. So, call today to see if they still have it. Which I can't see them not since it's a shop in Florida and I doubt they had a run on Alpaca in the last 2 months. Fingers crossed.
Today is another busy day in my schedule. Yesterday was nice and slow. I didn't even shower until 1:00 pm! But last night was hopping. I was able to knit with the buds for about 30 minutes before running off to teach at the Tech School. My students and I were talking to one of the Cont Ed supervisors who said his "shop" class is no longer called that. It's the PC police at work. Now it is called Precision Machining. And other things have been reassigned names. So we were discussing what we should rename our Knitting class. We came up with Fiber Technology. Can you imagine the Fiber Optic geeks that might show up for that class?
OK, I will stop boring you with my over scheduled life and non knitting progress. I see where Karen is feeling lazy and not getting much done, except some lovely knitting and spinning. It must be a phase of the moon or something. I feel the same way! I look at this house right now and I say Oh my! It's a mess of clothes, clean-just not put away. Kid's toys, Mom's toys, Hubsters stuff. Kitchen is looking like a wreck! No dirty dishes or anything, just looks like a junk yard. Anyone want a bread machine I don't think I have ever used? It's been on my kitchen table for a few weeks now. Not sure what I think I am doing with it. How about some size 5-7 kid's size clothes? Need to get those to the Salvation Army. I have knitting stuff all over the house. Haven't even put away the Stitches haul because I have some knit friends who still want to see it. But I won't see them until next month. Oh life. It's bigger, bigger than you, and you are not me.* Can you name that tune?
Blessings: It's a smaller group than the last time I taught the class, but I continue to have fun teaching through the Cont Ed program. Seeing the enthusiasm and desire in these ladies is always a shot in the arm for me. I also had a beg student come in Monday to the shop. Seems she is getting 2 new grandbabies in the coming months and she wants to make baby blankets. It was sweet to see how she wanted to be able to start knitting those blankets yesterday. I had to gentle her zeal and work her towards getting the stitch down pat, and then going on to the next level. How can you not be enthused when confronted with such excitement?
