Of course, I should still be there but being absent from work for several days on the trot is tricky, especially since I'll be off on holiday after the end of next week. I have oodles of work to get on with and very few days in which to do it.
After a couple of days of commuting to Birmingham, I've remembered why I hate using public transport and why I would be reluctant to take a job where I had to spend over three hours every day getting there and back. I've also discovered that I've forgotten how to talk to sales people, which used to be something (in a previous incarnation) I had to do on a regular basis. I worked out early on that I should have sorted out business cards, after I wrote my name and contact details down for the third or forth time. And of course, I missed tea and email and access to the internet in general. I could have lugged a laptop along with me and we were wi-fi'd up, but... That would have meant carrying it all day and walking a good two miles through Coventry holding onto it. For the uninitiated, Coventry (while not completely awful) does have its share of criminal types, and a woman walking alone in the dark (be it 7am or 8pm) through poorly lit streets has to remember this.
Today, normal service resumes and I can start off by saying some with relief that I've finished knitting washcloths for this year. No pictures, since once you've seen one you've seen them all but there are some examples here if you really want to see. I'm not entirely sure how many I've made... I lost count somewhere along the way, but if there are not enough to go round then it's tough. I'm done.
On Sunday, the sun came out - albeit briefly - and so I dragged my favourite kitchen chair out onto the patio to take some photographs.
Here we have a Four Cable Scarf, based on the Double Cable Scarf from One Skein by Leigh Radford.
I initially cast on enough stitches for three cables rather than four, but after knitting up some eight inches or so, decided it wasn't wide enough and ripped the whole lot back. I started again with 52 stitches for four cables, incrementing by 12 stitches for each cable from the original 28 specified by the pattern. I also added a considerable amount of length by increasing the middle ribbing section so that the whole thing measures about 6ft.
The yarn is a standard superwash wool DK and in daylight a sort of pinky red which is very pretty as well as a strong colour.
I'm pleased with this one. It's my first go at cables and as someone who a year ago didn't know how to knit (other than in a vaguely recalled way) I think it marks my progress in eleven months somewhat.
Another indicator of how far I've come is this...
My first sock. Still on the needles and coming along well.
3 comments:
As a non knitter must say the sock looks fine to me, you can see the progress, not my colour though or rather colours!! (ps you need 2 though or one foot will get cold)
The scarf looks excellent I hope the recipient appreciates the work involved, it looks like something anyone be proud to own.
PS the photo of the scarf is good, you just need to edit the post out of the background on the left hand side & I would have preferred a bigger image on your blog to see the finer detail in the scarf, but perhaps I'm being picky
Editing out the post on the left hand side would have made the chair lopsided which would have unbalanced the image (in my opinion at least). And the image is available as a slightly bigger version if you click on it!
I tend to avoid sticking big pictures up though because they can slow down a page's load time. Remember the blog is presented as several posts at a time, many of which contain photos. Those can add up and if you don't have a great connection and the pictures are huge, they will lead to significant load lag. Load lag means folks give up and navigate away.
And thanks for the positive comments about the scarf and sock. There will be a second sock along in due course I hope. :)
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