I got home late from work today, and then I did my cross training and made dinner and by the time I remembered to do the daily blog post, I realized that it was too dark to take an outdoor photo of my sock progress.
So here is a photo of the pretty sunset, instead.
Hooray! I’ve reached my favorite part: knitting the heel!
This afternoon, Sean and I set off for the 150-mile return trip to Ventura. I brought the second Green Print sock with me and knitted while Sean drove. When we got to Buellton (around 70 miles into the drive), I noticed a rainbow in the distance.
I kept knitting and Sean kept driving. We talked and listened to punk rock and sang along with a few of the songs. I wasn’t paying a lot of attention to the road until we got closer to Ventura.
That’s when I noticed the rainbow again.
It was a really nice way to end the drive.
Can you see the double rainbow?
Yep, this is going to take a very long time to finish.
This week I have been alternating between knitting a few rows on the Green Print sock and knitting a couple of rows on the Cherry Cola afghan. I knit using the Continental style along with the magic loop method. Combined, the two approaches make for faster knitting. Still, it’s slow going. I could share pictures of my progress, but they would be pretty boring photos. Luckily, I discovered something very cool this afternoon when I got home, so I’ll share a photo of that instead.
My avocado seed is sprouting!
So here is what I’m doing with the Cherry Cola yarn that I unraveled the other day. I still want it to be an afghan. Since it turned out to be too stretchy and hole-y in crocheted form, I decided it would be better as knitted fabric. I doubled the yarn to make it chunkier and started a simple basketweave pattern of alternating knitted and purled blocks.
The good news is that I’m getting a nice, smooth fabric that will serve as a soft, comfy blanket.
The bad news is– this is a large knitted piece of work and ohmygod, it will take me forever to finish.
This time, I’m knitting it.
Remember the Cherry Cola crocheted afghan? I’d planned to make it a large afghan that I could use as a blanket when I watched TV on the couch. The problem was that, the more I added crocheted rows to it, the more the afghan became bulky and unwieldy. When I pulled it over myself for a test run on the couch, it stretched and was too hole-y for my taste. It just wouldn’t do as a crocheted afghan.
So I did what a lot of other people won’t do: I accepted the fact that I’d hit a dead end with this project. For all the hours I put into crocheting it, I knew I wouldn’t use this afghan. I didn’t want to waste the yarn, so I spent the afternoon frogging it.
And then casting on for a new project…
It’s been a long day. Sean and I left Ventura around 2 PM to head down to Carson for the L.A Galaxy game against FC Dallas. We got home a few minutes ago, around 10:30 PM. The game was sold out, and it turned out to be a very exciting match between L.A. and Dallas. But now I’m exhausted, and I didn’t even do any of the driving. I’m so glad I don’t have to go to work tomorrow.
In knitting news, I made a little more progress on the second Green Print sock.
This morning I got up early to drive back to the Ventura homestead, and I thought I’d packed everything I needed: my purse, my laptop, my knitting. That would have been enough, except that it was too hot to knit this afternoon and I decided that I felt like coloring, instead. I had a coloring book and some pencils that I’d left here in Ventura a few weeks ago, and I was enjoying some peaceful coloring time when… the tip of my colored pencil broke off. And then the next one. And the next one. And I couldn’t find a single pencil sharpener. Because they were all up at the Morro Bay house.
Sigh.
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