tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981786.post-54993863191920177322008-02-03T11:51:00.000-05:002008-02-04T17:17:01.040-05:00Well, I have finished all the charity stuff that I'm going to, given that the meeting is today: two baby outfits and one slightly abbreviated Moderne baby blanket. I realized after packing them up that I had forgotten to take pictures, but I truly believe that our society will not suffer greatly for lack of this particular pictorial evidence. As is usually the case when I knit garter stitch, the blanket was a screwup from start to finish. I've said before that I can handle complex lace and Arans, but give me a garter stitch washcloth pattern and I can make a total hash of it. I suppose it's because I don't pay it enough attention and it repays my disrespect in kind. So upon reaching block #9 of the blanket, I realized that somehow I had managed to knit one of the starting blocks in the wrong direction. This may have been related to an earlier disaster when I had to rip out a different block because I had knit it in the wrong position. Now, the wrong direction thing was by no means a fatal error, though I think I could probably classify it as a classic Random Act Of Stupidity, but upon realizing that the blanket had already reached the 32" minimum measurement required by the charity group I decided to cut my losses and get the miserable thing off my needles. It doesn't look too bad, really, but you'll have to take my word for that. Since I so cleverly neglected to photograph the latest FOs and am not inclined to unpack them again (I already had to unpack once upon realizing that I had forgotten to label the blanket with its measurements), I have decided to post a pic of an old FO from sometime last year. I babbled at the time about the My Constant Companion tote that I had been working on. I never considered this thing fully finished because I still have not sewn on the 47 or so pockets I made. And yet, strangely enough, it still functions as a bag! <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_xQDenaKqRaQ/R6X0anu7HyI/AAAAAAAAACs/unI4Bc21Umc/s1600-h/summer+and+fall+2007+057.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_xQDenaKqRaQ/R6X0anu7HyI/AAAAAAAAACs/unI4Bc21Umc/s400/summer+and+fall+2007+057.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162801286029713186" /></a> I knit it a little taller than the pattern instructed, and we'll just say I did it on purpose. It's easily big enough to carry a small blanket in progress so that worked out quite well in the end. It does have an unparalleled talent for attracting dog hair, though, so I don't often take it out in public for fear someone will ask me to muzzle it. Current WIPs include, um, a whole bunch of stuff I started a long time ago. The Along Came a Spider lace scarf is right up there and I still have some faint hope of getting it done in time to wear this winter. I am making some cotton blend socks for the youngest daughter, and the first one is nearing completion. I have barely started a garter stitch (danger, Will Robinson!) blanket as my next charity offering. I'll probably get some work done on that today. And soon I hope to resurrect the Lotus socks and the Flowing River shawl, along with a truckload of other UFOs that are haunting my basement. Today I intend to watch that silly football game that everyone is always talking about. I've never seen it before, I have no idea which teams are playing or why I am even considering it. But I figure it's a good excuse to Sit and Knit and eat a lot of junk food.Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04636092577961442243noreply@blogger.com