This week I started reading Love Anthony by Lisa Genova, on loan from my MIL. I am not too far in and I am hooked enough that I am curious about the characters, but not overwhelmingly so. I am enjoying getting back into reading and am glad that we are trying to make it part of the nightly routine. My knitting has been all over the place, mostly just driving me a bit nuts by my own mistakes.
I have been working on the sample knitting project and relaxed just enough with the lace-on-both-sides-pattern that I mistakenly knit the same row twice, throwing off the subsequent rows. When I realized my mistake, two dozen rows later, and let out the big gasp, even my husband could see where I went wrong.
Over the course of the weekend, I was able to carefully tink back and finished that portion of the project and have moved on. While I was still a bit too annoyed with myself I decided to cast on for a selfish project because surely that would make me feel better. I started a hat but couldn’t get the cast-on correct, then knit an inch of the hat brim before realizing I had twisted when I joined the stitches to knit in the round. More tinking. The hat has a cable design, which I also misknit on the first row and didn’t notice until I was three rows beyond. More tinking. I’m on the right track now. This is the Ebb Tide Hat and the yarn is Green Mountain Spinnery Mewesic in the Purple Rain colorway. It’s awesome – rustic and tweedy yet so soft! Hard to capture the right shade of purple it is with the flecks of blue and red. This was a 2014 Rhinebeck purchase, first Rhinebeck yarn on the needles.
I think I will have to start a very plain stockinette square dishcloth at this rate, just to give my brain a break – my current WIPs all require some degree of attention: one has short rows, one has cables, one has a feather-and-fan-ish design, others require counting…
Oh no!!! I hate when I have these spurts of can’t-do-anything-right too! I think the dishcloth idea is perfect–it will relax you, plus they go fast and it feels good to just.get.something.done sometimes.
Oh, boy. I’m strangely glad that I’m not the only knitter who has days like this. That snowman stitch marker looks really cute on that hat.
You definitely need a simple project to balance all the thinking out! I like that purple yarn a lot.
Your the second one I read about this week who twisted their knitting…..love the color if the hat…I look at their yarn all the time at Rhinebeck, but haven’t bought any…I did get some in a big destash, that some friends and I bought together….are you going to Vogue Knitting this weekend?
I’ll be not far away, at a family event on Long Island! I would love to go to VKLive… someday!
On days like this, I go to the gym and leave knitting to the next day. Hang in there! Both projects are beautiful and will come together!
I love your choice of yarn, especially the purple. And the stitch marker is gorgeous.