Wayward Knitting

You Know What Sucks About Knitting 2 Front Panels at the same time?

When you screw them both up and have to rip them both out.  Yes, I thought I was being all sensible by adding some stitches to both the fronts so that it would be wide enough to close over my belly.  Of course, I forgot that I had already decided to knit a larger size. Doh! The ribbing part looked to be the perfect width.  The two fronts looked perfect.  I kept draping them over my torso admiring their perfectness.

Then I realized--wait, I still have to pick and knit the button band.  Double Doh!

So, back to the frog band.  Oh, did I mention I had screwed up a cable on side and had ripped and re-knit once already on one front?

To console myself, I finished my tropical Interlacements Tiny Toes socks. 

Had to share the sunshine with the dog, so most of the sock is in the shadow of the dog.

Kara Thrace is a Cylon

anyone watch BG? I'm totally addicted.  I am convinced now that Kara is one of the 5 unknown Cylon "skinjob" models. 

People have commented on the wine.  I joined the Ridge wine club and I think their Petite Syrah is fabulous.  The 2001 was my fave.  Ridge is a local vineyard and since real estate is so frackin' expensive here, the Cupertino grapes make the Monte Bello--a mere $200/bottle.  Yikes!  The other grapes come from Sonoma and Paso Robles and that's where my Ridge wine is from--not the fancy stuff.

And, back to the knitting content.  Have tried my hand at some lace--the Argosy.  It's the perfect pattern for the West Valley Alpacas handpaint that had been marinating in the stash since Stitches West 2004...

Say goodbye...since I found a random wonky tendril that I knit accidentally.  It's going to the frog pond and then I'll wait for some quality time with the chart to start over.

As for sweater news...it's been 80 degrees of late.  Of course, this has motivated me to work on my 100% wool sweater.  We have a right front done!  This was my first foray into the Japanese Short Row shoulders on the theory that I will do a 3 needle bind off after I complete the back.  Wish me luck.  Thank goodness for Nona's tutorial.

Open Heart Surgery

While the first sleeve sailed along, the second one was not so fortunate.  I think I was so overconfident after my success with the first sleeve that I assumed nothing could go wrong.  I took my 2nd sleeve to a knit night with many lovely ladies in San Jose and oohed and ahhed over the cashmere.  (They were all knitting lovely things, and I was most taken with the practicality of the cashmere gaiter...when else can you say cashmere is practical? Less than one skein!)

I had goodies, I didn't even have wine, but the fine company and festivities (felting!) went to my head.  The next morning I found a slipped stitch in my cable about 23 rows down.  Yikes.

The surgery went well.  Of course, that didn't stop me from making the same dern mistake some 40 rows later.  Again with the surgery.  Heck, I spent more time operating than actually knitting this sleeve.  All is well now and it is done.  Later this week I'll tackle a front side even!

In the meantime, an FO.  It's the martini dishcloth.  Cute and fun little pattern.  Next time though, I'll try to figure out how to get a stir stick into the pattern:

As for my Red Scarf...it is going very very slowly.  I was an idiot to knit it on size 8 needles. What was I thinking?  I am seriously considering getting some size 13's and whipping through a fun double stranded scarf to make sure I finish it in time to ship out.