Finders, Keepers

Apologies for the blurry pictures. No idea what's going on with the camera. But hey, any pictures at all are an improvement, right?

Okay, listen to this. Stuff like this never happens to me (and all of a sudden I feel like this should have started with "Dear Penthouse...").

Yesterday I went downstairs to get a drop spindle and some fiber (I saw this wrist yarn holder in Spin-Off and couldn't live without at least one. There's a crochet project right after it that I might make, too.). First I couldn't find the fiber, but then I spied it on a chair. Then I couldn't find the spindle I was looking for, but while I was looking for it I found:
- my Windows disk, which I have spent 2 months looking for
- a bunch of knitting needles I've been looking all over for
- a bunch of yarn I had separated out to make baby stuff out of
- some beautiful grey baby alpaca fiber I had forgotten about

Then I came upstairs to see if the spindle I was looking for was there, and when it wasn't, I went back downstairs to give it one more shot, and lo and behold, there it was peeking out of a bag, and in the bag were some more little pieces of fiber I had forgotten about. Later, I was looking for a pencil to draft the design for a baby sweater (my search for a pattern was unsuccessful), and couldn't find one in the usual spots, then looked down on the floor and spotted one (please ignore what this says about my housekeeping. Remember, we're happy about the finding of things.). I spent the rest of the day trying to remember if I had lost anything else, because obviously yesterday was my day for finding things.

In knitting news, the Sam sweater might never get made. I have been knitting diligently and am now up to the third cable cross on the left front. Only…I discover as I pull out my knitting on the train that I made the cross on my last RS row, one row too early. This is not a big deal. This is really easy to fix, because I’m uncrossing on the drop down of the stitches and then will cross as normal as I knit across this row, see? I do this, and it was indeed as easy as I imagined. Only…something doesn’t look right. I check my rows, really annoyed that I might have to drop back down a couple rows and recross what I uncrossed. No, I’m definitely on the correct row for crossing.

Damn. I made the previous cross too early. I am not dropping down that many rows and trying to cross dropped stitches on a moving train. Damn, damn damn. I thought for sure I’d have the first repeat done tonight. Damn.

So instead I worked on this.

Do you believe I cast on last night, and only knit the 4 rows of garter stitch? Everything else was 10 minutes on the PATH this morning and another 15 on the train tonight! Sweet! I’ll have this sucker done in no time! Also, I decided this is my backup plan for the baby sweater I have to have done in September. This makes me feel much better, but I will feel much more awesome and cool if I get both the Sam sweater and the first Mexicali sweater done by then, too. Of course, I just found out that the NYC Knit Out is September 17th, and since it’s still usually pretty warm up here then, I’m going to need to knit a short sleeved sweater of some sort. Oh, and since the Yarn Harlot will be there, and she has led me to the path of Sock Tempation, which I will begin traveling down soon with these, I would like to have them done by then, too. Good thing I made the wrist yarn holder so I can knit while I walk from the PATH to work. Hey, with a not-quite-four month old, I have to steal all the knitting time I can get.

posted by Laura Y. @ 10:42 AM