A Day of Reckoning

10:30 AM, morning of the 4th of July, 2007. All of the following criteria have been met:
-Day off from work due to holiday
-Sleeping in a little later than normal
-Daily oblutions completed, the super deluxe holiday version which includes a minty face mask and lemony hand treatment
-House cleaned to standards such that I won't see anything in need of cleaning to distract me during my task to come
-A cup of strong, Yunnan tea has been made, perhaps with some Wuyi oolong to follow
-Photos of my works in progress taken.
-Screwed around on the internet for an hour to get that out of my system.
-Blog updated.

The task set before me is to finish this sweater:
Yes, this is the sweater I set out to finish, oh, the weekend before last, was it? And how far have I gotten? Finished the second sleeve and worked a bit on the body. Yeah, gold star work there, kiddo. Anyway! Water under bridges now. I have about 2 more full pattern repeats to go for it to be a good length. I think I can make it. Also, I think I need to lengthen the sleeves by one more decrease increment. They're just beyond my wrists, but I have stumpy arms, and the decrease they left off with wasn't flush with the ribbing. Plus, I feel a little bad about the bulk at the sleeve caps. It's going to happen with any ribbed sweater, I think, since the armhole's only going to be so large and is not going to stretch, whereas the sleeve you're fitting into it is all stretchy in girth. So unless you stretch it to its utmost when you fit it into the armhole, making it look wonky when it's not being worn, you're just going to have a roomier upperarm. Anyway, I think that making the sleeves a little longer will help compensate for the thickness.

Not only does this have to be done by the 20th, I have 1 and a half more sweaters and a pair of socks to knit by that time. So this sucker needs to get finished freaking today.

Speaking of which, I've gotten to the lace part on the socks! Hoorah!


The lace is definitely moving around the sock, but I can't really say how. It's not a typical spiral formation where the lines of decreases and increases just keeping marching along their paths. Only two pattern rounds, the increases and decreases returning to what looks like their original positions with each repeat. And it's not like the sock itself is moving around my needles, either. the little tails are staying at what looks like the same place. Intwiging! It's become my new bus project, and since the bus takes 30 minutes each direction each day, I'm getting some good work done on it.

But enough blather! It's almost 11! I'm burning day light! And I've polished off my cup of tea. Time to brew some more and get moving.