House Sitting = More Knitting

July 2nd, 2007

I should clarify that though: House sitting without internet (with TV) = more knitting. I’ve just come home from a little over a week of not being home more than a couple hours a day (can’t be away from the internet 100% of the time!). I haven’t had as much recreational online time as I normally do, but I have been watching satellite TV which I don’t have at home. It’s a lot easier to knit while watching TV than while on the internet.

Proof that I’ve been doing lots?

monpetitchou1

candle-flame2

cotton-socks

From the bottom up, first the socks: I sped through the end of these really quickly. Lots of stockinette, watching the stripes go by, and the pull of new sock yarn ready to jump on the needles next. Unfortunately those draws to bring me to finish weren’t strong enough to get through the grafting, and I generally don’t have a problem with grafting. I think it may be the distraction of other projects.

It’s easy to memorize this candle flames pattern for the shawl, especially once you get past the mistakes in the pattern. I’m tempted to write up a chart for this, especially since it is no longer technically published on the web (accessible now through archive.org). There is no chart available for this as far as I can see, and I would find it more helpful. I likes me some charts!

I think that Mon Petit Chou needs to be charted as well. It’s a real pain in the arse to have to follow a glob of letters. I finally started crossing off rows so I could find my place more easily. Even that is only made easier by having memorized the pattern repeat used within most of each row. I swear the number of pattern repeats you need to use stated on Knitty for the medium is wrong. I haven’t been following along with them since the beginning. I just knit until it seems like I have stopped short enough for the middle stitches to be knit. It’s pretty easy to figure out, but would be nice not to have to do. I’ll do a more thorough check later and consider e-mailing the designer. Otherwise, I’m enjoying it! I can’t wait to have it done so I can try it on.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 2nd, 2007 at 1:53 pm and is filed under Knitting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “House Sitting = More Knitting”

  1. Kara says:
    July 2, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    Yeah, I think I charted Petit Chou. I hate following a non-chart lace or cable pattern. I think I also found errata somewhere on the internets… but maybe that was for the top, which I didn’t make. Do some googling!

  2. Kri says:
    July 2, 2007 at 2:22 pm

    Unfortunately google didn’t help much, at least with the search terms I attempted.