Knitting Momentum Established

Yesterday morning I had a number of appointments, so I brought my other knitting book along and figured out the other casting on technique. One practice run and one proper cast on later, I had a foundation for the back of sweater one. This nicely set up the evening trip with the kid to observe a Tae Kwon Do class. I actually got some inches knit, I finally got past the first 4 rows of garter trim. Huzzah! The Tour de France is in the mountains, so there is five hours of coverage to knit along with.

Deadline Project

The gage drama seems to have settled down. I think going up one needle size and trying to keep the stitches loose will do the trick.

There is a baby boom-let among my friends at the moment, but we're getting to that "it better happen now, if its gonna happen" age. Both babies are due the last week of September/first week of October that is the deadline. Added bonus that should have projects wrapping up about a month into the fall semester, which is when I will probably need to be buckling down.

The first sweater is a little cardigan in a 3 month size with a matching hat. October birthdays in Oregon means sweater weather right away. The car ride to and from Monterey will hopefully be very productive.

TdF Knitting Challenge Update

I finished the back of Y's sweater and the new yarn for the other projects has arrived. Now I am in gage hell. I'm looking for 4 stitches/1" and getting more. So now I'm playing with needle sizes, but aaarrrgh. Hopefully I'll have sorted by Friday morning, for the big drive that is quality knitting time. In fact, I should be knitting right now, not blogging. Off I go.

TdF Knitting Challenge Day 3

It was a day of Tour de France Interuptus...I had to walk away with 25km to go. Places to be and if I pushed it any farther it would be to difficult to pause. Several inches of sweater added, need to measure. However the chenille for the new projects arrived...more on those items soon. Very exciting!

TdF Knitting Challenge Day 1

Project: He'll Wear It Every Day sweater from The Yarn Girls Guide to Simple Knits for Y

I started it in January on vacation, but it has been much neglected during this busy year.

Today's progress: I am still working on the back, but finally passed the cursed inch (from 17-18" in length) which has been knit nearly half a dozen times. In fact 5 inches were accomplished, including all the arm hole decreases and I finished the skein.

Tomorrow: Winding a new skein, if I don't find time for that before morning and then the last 6 inches of the back. Yay!