Jon's Knit Blog

Good News and Bad

Bad first, though.

So knitting is supposed to de-stressify? Last night, I didn't really have enough time to deal with a row of the Rosetta Blankie, since the next row is a color change row. I had just had too stressful of a day at work to want to have to deal with that.

I just wanted something simple and easy and nice. But I couldn't find anything suitable. Then I realized that I had swatched for a hat and could just cast on and start it. Two strands of Koigu on a lovely circular needle made from ebony. So I start casting on. And the brass flange leading from the wood to the plastic bendy part comes off. So I cut away the cast on, because it won't go over the weird pieces now, and push the thing back and decide that I could just cast on in the other direction. But the exact same thing happens!

Let me tell you, knitting is not destressifying if your needle keeps breaking.

Anyhow, I found a different needle, a plastic circular which I hate, and cast on for a funky, silly scarf-y thing. I'm using a needle that's much bigger than the yarn calls for, and doing YO, P2TOG for an entirely huge amount of stitches, partly just to see how it turns out. I cast on, then made it through two rows before going to bed. But at least it was an interesting change of yarn.

Anyhow? The good news?

Seed Stitch Scarf is done, or, at least, it will be after I weave in the ends. It's 75" long, which is taller than I am. I ended up with about 7 yards of yarn left. I didn't knit all the way to the end because the pattern the whole way through had been two row stripes from different skeins. Even though they're the "same" colorway, there's enough variation that it created a pattern which I didn't want to mess with right at the end. So I worked until the penultimate skein ran out, then I knit one more row with the longer yarn and bound off with it.

And now, I have to go back to the palace of stress known as my job. It has been so busy lately; none of us are having any fun. But what can I do? I have to pay for this yarn habit. And for a place for my yarn to live. And for superglue to fix the flanges on my needle...