Regularly scheduled programming

Let’s get back in the swing of things with a WIP post, shall we?

Way back in July I started Shetland Triangle. It seems that most people follow the instructions and do eight repeats of the body chart. Since I’m using sock yarn my gauge is smaller, and I am currently on my 15th repeat of the body chart.

So, basically, it is taking FOREVER. I knew that there were more stitches every row (obviously) but it really is dramatic how much longer each repeat of the body chart takes than the repeat before. So while I’m a little embarrassed that it is taking me so long to do Shetland Triangle, I hope you all understand.

I just recently started Exchequered in Filatura Di Crosa 501 that I got at WEBS a couple of years ago.  The colors are perfect for my sister Caroline (in fact, I used the lighter pink to make Elijah for her) so it will probably end up belonging to her.

I’m not using the chart on knitty because I didn’t feel like printing it out, I’m just adding squares when I feel like it. As a result, the two ends of the scarf won’t match, but I think I’ll like it better that way. I chose the pattern because I had never done double-knitting before, and I had to start it three times before I could get my gauge to be reasonably even. At the beginning I totally hated the double-knitting process, but now I am getting the hang of it. I really like the way it’s turining out!

Why hello there

Sorry I dropped off the face of the Earth for awhile there. Look, here I am, alive and well:

I’ve had a really busy couple of months. My whole month of September was consumed by the law school recruiting season. Fortunately I have some good options open to me at this point, but it’s a really stressful process. Before that, I finished up my summer job and went to New Hampshire with my husband. I did a little bit of knitting, making a hat for Robyn and chipping away at that Shetland Triangle that I started earlier in the summer.  (PS when my husband saw that picture of Robyn he said “whoa, it’s bizarro-you wearing your hat!”  Robyn, I like your taste in glasses )

But that’s not why I was absent from the blog. To be honest, I had a knitter’s identity crisis. I feel a little bad even talking about this, because it might sound like I’m ungrateful for an amazing design opportunity that I had. I am incredibly grateful, and next time I’ll manage the whole thing better. But it was hard on me, and it killed my interest in knitting for awhile. I would be up late knitting, and my wrists and hands would be hurting, and I’d think “what am I doing to myself?” And it’s not that the project was difficult, it was just a quick time frame and I had a lot of other stuff going on. I didn’t work on it at all for one whole weekend because my room mate from college was visiting. I had a summer job 40 miles away and a law school writing contest. Normally when I have a lot going on I relax and clear my head by knitting. The fact that I was stressed out about knitting, of all things, really threw me off.

In the mean time, knitting is my hobby. Knitting is my creative side, my relaxation. It is not my WORK.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming.