Who's the coolest of them all? Who is the Game Night master?
I WON RED SOX TICKETS! Woo-toot!
1 game of Pentago, 5 games of Jishaku, and one speedy 'double your money' game of Blockus and I had enough monopoly money to win tickets! Also: Quirkle, and Exago are very fun games.
I've always been a monogamous crafter. I start a project, and I don't start anything else until that project is completely finished. This has generally been the case because I only buy enough yarn for one project at a time.
I'm slowly slipping. Unfinished I have my Christmas blanket (still waiting on two more squares), my sock (got bored after I learned how to turn the heel) and my sweater.
I am by no means getting bored with my sweater. Boy if that were the case there would be no hope for me! If lace and 3 cables all going through different row repeats at different times plus shaping couldn't keep my attention nothing would. But, that doesn't mean that I'm not planning ahead. (Yeah that's it.. planning ahead..) My present to myself after I pay off all my medical crap and tax crap is going to be yarn. ^_^ And somewhere to keep it that's not the box or bag that it came in.
Mr. has requested a blanket instead of a sweater. The last blanket I made for him is now acting as a slip cover. So I'm going to need lots of yarn for that, a zip-up sweater to replace the one that Buddy turned into a chew toy, and then two secret projects I can't tell you about.
This sweater is a challenge. First sweater, first cables, first intricate lace work. Whew, not a mindless knitting. The biggest challenge is the way the pattern is written. It's sort of all written out, but not. It writes out each segment for the different cables and lace panels but then they only write out a 10 row segment which you repeat; changing increases and decreases that it lists out underneath that (in a very confusing, have to sit there for a moment and plan it out way). Examples:
Row 8: P4, work Row 8 of Lace patt over next 17 sts, p10 (12, 14, 16), work Row 8 of Small Cable patt over next 4 sts, p4, work Row 8 of Alternating Cable patt over next 8 sts, p4, work Row 8 of Small Cable patt over next 4 sts, p10 (12, 14, 16), work Row 8 of Lace patt over next 17 sts, p4.And after the first 10 rows none of the cables or lace panels line up. So I've been having to write down on a scrap of paper which row I'm going to be on in each segment for the next row of the entire piece. Luckily the smaller cable is only 10 rows long, and corresponds with the 10 row segment, except you'll be on row 8 and it's also row 8 of the small cable, but row 4 of the large cable and row 12 of the lace panel. wipes away sweat It also looks like I was only supposed to repeat rows 5-10 of the small cable and not all 10 rows, which really, why didn't you just write out 5 rows then? But I like the affect I'm getting with doing all 10 rows better then if I had followed directions ;)
Continue in patts as established, and AT THE SAME TIME decreasing 2 sts (as done onRows 3, 7, and 10 just next to the outer edges of the small cables) on every alternating 4th and 3rd row 3 times, then every 4th row 1 time = 70 (74, 78, 82) sts.
Views from my office, just for fun.
That's MIT!
From my chair.
Roof at the end of the hall.
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