I Really Have Been Knitting…
There hasn’t been a ton of knitting going on around here seeing as how I have been getting the laptop up and running again most of the week. That said, there has been progress since you last saw things, much of which took place over the weekend, but there were times this week that I took solace in my knitting (had to rip frequently as all the stress wreaked havoc on my gauge, but…).
So, first up, we have the lovely Emma dog showing off the length of my Flower of Life scarf. I don’t knit on it too frequently, but it is now to the point that I don’t have to think about it much at all so it is pretty good visiting knitting. It still isn’t ideal TV or movie knitting because of all the PSSOs there are, but progress is being made every now and again. That’s a 30-lb dog for scale :-) Okay, so Emma isn’t a good example for scale. I haven’t measured the length, but I would suspect it is closing in on three feet in length soon and I believe there is more than half of the yarn left yet so this will be a very generous scarf!
This is the swatch of the Nautical Blankie I am designing for Snow but in an alternate colorway. I’ve just begun the tesselating wave to go from the medium blue to the light blue, then I’ll have about 20 more rows to go and it’ll be time for the top border, followed by steeking and the side borders.
To say I’m disappointed in my knitting on this is an understatement. It seems that knitting to this gauge with fingering weight while stranding is a much fussier proposition than doing so with worsted or aran weight yarn. My mitten hasn’t even been blocked and I think it looks great. This swatch? Crap!
I’m doing some serious praying that it will improve once the steeking is complete and it can be properly blocked. I think perhaps I should have gone up a needle size and knit a bit tighter. But, I am doing a better and more efficient job of catching the floats and that is a good thing. I didn’t have too many floats to catch on the mitten. It’s a learning process. If I have to knit another swatch, I have to knit another swatch. Though I am thinking about knitting a cute little baby hat to coordinate which would hopefully look a little bit better because I wouldn’t be on DPNs trying to get the right length of floats across needle joins.
While my knitting on this one has disappointed me greatly, I’m very happy with the pattern. I’d be happier if I didn’t have to generate the charts once again. But, oh well!
We’re ordering a jump drive that I can back up current projects on and an external hard drive to do weekly temporary back-ups to in between the DVD+R back-ups. Obviously another hard drive is not the optimum place to back-up to, but the number of DVD+Rs it would take to back-up my system on a weekly basis is mind numbing. The DVD+R back-ups will take place quarterly when I do my sales tax paperwork. That way I will have an association with another non-negotiable task so it’ll get done more regularly (though the main problem with the old hard drive was that the bad sectors on it prevented a sucessful back-up and yes, I had the hard drive I should have made time to install it - live and learn).
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