LoopyKnits

Knitting? What knitting? All I’ve done since returning from my business trip to San Antonio is:

• Ignore my laundry pile. It’s growing faster than even my 7-year-old, too.
• Turn a blind eye toward housework (my house proves the chaos theory).
• Get the kids’ last-minute school supplies.
• Work. And work. And work. Lots of catching up since we were out of the office for most of a week.
• Sleep. Lots of early bedtimes for me recently. I can’t figure this out. Maybe it’s part of the periomenopause that has me testing the outer limits of my antiperspirant’s capabilities. (Works for the ol’ pits. But it’s my HEAD and NECK that are sweating the most — and you can’t exactly glide Secret over your hairdo, can you?)
• Repeat the previous steps.
• Oh, and frog my shawl. Twice.

The shawl was just too darned narrow or too long. Or both. It ended up looking like a scarf, even when I stretched it out (it’s very netty and stretchy). So I frogged it and tried again, this time casting on 80 instead of 40. Big mistake. Emphasis on BIG. It would have probably hit the back of my knees if I had finished it like that. (The extra weight of the yarn made it stretch even more when I examined several rows of progress.) So … back to the frog pond. Now I’m knitting around 57 stitches (intended 60, but what the hey). This — like the baby bear’s porridge — seems to be just right. So I’m thinking of calling this my Baby Bear Shawl, to the mystification of all.

I’m *dying* to get started on my 6-Sox-Knitalong project, too. But I’m discouraged because I will have to upsize the pattern to fit my fat, er, I mean, CURVY calves. I’m planning on doing the fancy calculating while I’m on vacation next week. (A week of housework, weeding, and knitting. Ah, knitting. Some bright spots in my fall cleaning project, at least!) And while I’m at it, I will try to find the darned two skeins of red sock yarn I bought last year and promptly misplaced. Hmmph. I think my house needs a good spraying for gremlins.

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