I actually finished knitting Glint on Friday. Kevin went into the city to see his friends and I took the opportunity to curl up on the couch and watch Sex in the City and Gilmore Girls* on DVD. I think I actually finished the knitting around 1am. While I was tempted to start the seaming, I decided it might be better to wait until I was a bit more rested. Saturday morning when I woke up, I grabbed the pieces of Glint and my crochet hook and crawled back in bed. Seaming in bed while warm and comfy under the covers is perfect! As soon as I finished seaming, I gave Glint a wash with some Garnier Fructis hair conditioner. All wet and fruity smelling, I laid her out to dry and waited. Sunday I waited. Monday I waited. Finally, by Tuesday morning she was actually dry. I sewed on the button and viola! A finished Glint.
And now I don't know what to do with myself. I've finished 3 sizable projects very quickly--sheepy blanket, Glimmer, and Glint. I don't know what to knit right now. I told this to Kevin last night and he laughed and said "but you always have something waiting to be knit" and then he gestured to all the yarn I have laying around. I have Tubey to finish, but I'm not in love with that anymore and likely will rip it. I have enough Kureyon to make a sweater. I bought it back in the Fall to make a zippered sweater, but I'm not in love with that anymore either. That basically leaves some odds and ends of yarn and a ton of sock yarn. And while I love knitting socks, my hands can only handle so much tiny needle time and the sockapaloooza 3 socks come first (I finished 1 sock and started the second). So I've been alternating the sockapaloooza sock with squares. Remember that squares blanket out of the tons of Elann Peruvian wool?
Here's the yarn from November 2004.
It was supposed to be this.
On July 30th of 2005, I decided that I was not going to ever finish if I stuck with the blanket pattern because I hate intarsia. So I decided to knit all of the skeins into plain squares. If you look in my purse, I generally have a skein and a partially finished square with me at all times (it is good travelling knitting). After finishing Glint, I picked up a square and finished it. Then I finished another and started a 3rd. I think I'm now close to 20 squares finished and 9 more to go (not counting the cream color, I want to see how big this blanket will be without the cream because I probably have enough of that to save for another project, but if need be, I'll tap into the cream). So squares and socks... that's on my knitting plate.
This is for Cordelia because she asked. It is the short-row heel for my first sockapaloooza sock. My only secrets are pull tight (very tight on each wrap and the first stitch after each wrap) and knit through the back loops when picking up the wraps. Oh, and the third secret is practice. The first pairs of socks I short-rowed do not look as pretty as this (but fortunately they were in wool that has since fluffed up and hidden the holes).
*Yeah, I've been watching the Gilmore Girls off and on in reruns in the afternoons. It is cute, I like it, but I wasn't obsessed with watching it. Friday after dropping Kevin off at the train station, I went to check out the new Target that opened nearby. First of all, I shouldn't be allowed in Target by myself because I have a deep desire to buy lots and lots of things that I don't need. Two of the things that ended up in my basket (thank god I didn't get a cart!) were Season 3 of Sex in the City and Season 1 of the Gilmore Girls. I watched a bit of Sex in the City, but the I put on the Gilmore Girls and couldn't stop watching. I still have a bunch of episodes to watch, and I'm dying to take the day off and continue the marathon of watching, but then I'd have to go back to Target and buy season 2 and then I'd want to take another day off and quickly the Gilmore Girls will cause me to drop out of grad school. So I must have self-restraint and pace myself.
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