Oops, I did it again

Why doesn't this yarn want to be a sweater for my wonderful little poppet? This morning I fixed the cable

(camera phone on a moving train, but you get the idea) after I remembered that yes, I do too have a crochet hook with me at all times. I got enough further along that I was to the next cross and managed even to get the WS row after it done. I pull out the sweater tonight on the return trip and guess what? Right the first time -- I crossed the #&!*^@ cable too early again. I fixed it and put the knitting away.

In other knitting, I got more done on the Wild Baby sweater. I used my fancy shmancy wrist thingie to hold the ball of yarn and knitted while I walked all the way to work. Well, almost all the way. About a block away, I noticed my arm felt lighter but the tension on the yarn was somehow wrong. I looked down and saw that my ball was about 20 yards behind me. The gentleman who was about to tap me on the shoulder and alert me to the situation seemed very amused. Fortunately, it was a dry, (relatively) clean stretch of sidewalk, so no harm done, except I'm really annoyed about the wrist thingie. I already found out yesterday that I can't do a center pull ball with it, which limits its usefulness to me. I think I'm going to end up making the crocheted ball holder in the same issue of Spin Off (Summer 2006, and let me just take a moment to note how annoying it is that they don't add a permalink to the current issue until it becomes a back issue. So those of you reading this in the future, welcome, and go to Spin Off's Back Issue section for the issue that has this stuff in it.).

Stay tuned for the move to A Frayed Knot's new home -- had a bit of trouble with the domain name, but it should all be worked out soon.

posted by Laura Y. @ 4:46 AM