When it rains in San Antonio, it rains til it floods. They are predicting between 1 and 3 inches of rain falling between last night and the end of the weekend, depending on where exactly in this area you are. And while I ive on a hill, all the low spots in the roads fill with water. So I am using that as an excuse to hang around the house to nap and knit today.
First: a finished pair of socks.
Feels great to have finished a knitting project, and to have a new pair of socks, and to like the results. But this leaves a knitting gap. So I continued to swatch, this time with some yarn I have had in the stash for quite some time, and that might work for the vest I mentioned in my last post. But as I said, I am overwhelmed by my choices, since I have the yarn I swatched this morning in several colors, and so I need to decide. I am of course overthinking the whole thing -- fer cryin' out loud, Rob, just grab some yarn and start knitting, any yarn, any pattern -- so I decided to take a step sideways. I have a UFO -- unfinished object, in virtual knitting speak. (Actually I have more than one but...) It is a gorgeous wrap made with some supersoft purple alpaca yarn. The coziest softest yarn ever. I have no idea why I stopped knitting it. So I pulled it out of the yarn closet and discovered that 1) it escaped the Great Moth Invasion of 2011, and 2) it is almost done. Here is an old picture of the beginnings of it:
It is knit in two pieces, from each end. You graft the two pieces together in the middle. I think I only have a few inches to go on the second piece, and then will have to graft it. Grafting, for you non-knitters, is a way of sewing a seam so that the join is invisible. It is usually the occasion for great swearing, tears and gnashing of teeth on the part of most knitters. I, with my 20-plus years of knitting experience, will do it calmly and perfectly. Fer true. Absolutely.
i love how those socks turned out, congrats!
it's usually very nice to have a ufo around to finish. on one hand it's like getting a great head start to a beautiful project--assuming it's liked as much now as it was when casted on.
Posted by: britney | September 29, 2012 at 09:47 PM