In a continuing sock theme….
So apparently, I’m all socks, all the time!
These Spring Forward socks are from the Summer ‘08 Knitty, and in the immortal words of the Monty Python gang, they’re “very nice.” Of course, for that gag to work, you have to have a built-in mental model of a bad French accent or a permanent feed of Eddie Izzard stand-up in your head. I have both. I’m not sure that’s a good thing….
Thankfully, there has also been non-sock non-imaginary-Eddie-Izzard-stand-up action to balance out the socks.
This is a problem shawl that mended its ways after a long, wayward teenage rebellion. It’s been sitting in my basket mocking me for a good 9 months because of a problem right at the center increase, the victim of a not-now-it’s-too-damn-difficult mentality. Everytime I got up enough gumption to fix it, I’d stare at it for 20 minutes, realize I had something far more rewarding–and not nearly so screwed up–in my WIP pile and give up.
The solution was there the whole time, apparently: my fantastic knitting group, though that seems to be the answer for many things of late. By simply taking this shawl to Knit Night last Thursday as my only project, I was able to overcome inertia and get the darn thing fixed. Who knew knitting groups were stronger than Newton’s Laws? (In other news, I’m also waiting for a pile of physicists to come storming through my front door waving textbooks and ranting about how humanities scholars shouldn’t joke about universal laws for fear of actually warping the space-time continuum.)
The screw-up is nearly invisible, and I’m just about done with the extra 2 repeats of the main pattern I chose to do to make the shawl big enough to meet my shawl-wearing needs (I like to wrap it like a wrap-top and tie the ends behind my back).
What? What’s that? Research? That school thing? Oh, there’s been some of that too. Enough that I don’t feel the desperate need to bludgeon myself to death with size 19 needles, but not enough that I can actually submit anything. Soon, though. Soon.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Hah! Well this physicist won’t storm your door… and not just because I’m on the wrong continent now, but because I needed the laugh at that silly notion.
June 17th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Those socks are going to look great–I love the lace pattern. I was looking at Ravelry–can’t believe 83 people have cast on for that pattern already! I feel like it came out yesterday.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Knitting groups often have gravitational pulls. Duh. Everybody knows that.