My Knitting

I was feeling pretty fabulous yesteday about 3 p.m., because I was up to here on the front of my vest:

Then I noticed one side had less stiches than the other. Poo. I would have to rip it out to the beginning of the V-neck shaping and start again. But not now; I had a birthday dinner to go to!  Happy Birthday Arline! It was a great dinner and a really great chocolate cake. Yum!

After we got back, I had to rip out the vest, because I couldn't face doing that in the morning. So I did.

It was a lot easier than I thought to pick up the stitches afterwards. The cotton in the yarn (the white ply, I think) seems to stick to the grey ply of wool and cotton somehow, which makes it hard to drop a stitch. 

Nicky looks puzzled:

"You just spent several hours knitting it mummy, why you rip it out, huh?"

Then I very carefully found the exact center stitch and began decreasing again, and I got this far before going to bed:

And in other knitting adventures, here is my mohair/silk laceweight scarf; I haven't knit on it for a long time, but my picture is new.

This is my secret sea silk thing I'm making, that I only do about two rows on a week, guiltily working on it in stolen time while my vest is being knit:

I am calling it "on the Wings of the Ocean Breeze", and I am using Sarah H. Wolf's "Arroyo" pattern on size 6 needles and one skein of Handmaiden Sea Silk (70% silk, 30% seacell, made from seaweed) which I bought in beautiful Nova Scotia. I started this a while ago, but got distracted by Christmas knitting, and I am now picking it up again. The pattern is wonderful and the yarn is amazing. I love how it feels. The hand-dyeing is exquisite: it's like I just pulled it out of the ocean.

Nicky thinks, eh, just like the ocean, but no fish. Bummer. I'll go to sleep, then.

Comments

[brandi]

I tear out so much stuff when I goof. The hubs thinks I'm crazy. I wish the cat would hang around enough to think I'm crazy lol. I love Nicky:)

[Beth Collins]

Tearing out stuff is good, it means you are learning, lol. And Nicky says "Purrr".