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I’m inching along on the Hidcote Garden Shawl. I’ve been working on it incessantly but it seems like I’m not getting much progress on it. I know this isn’t true. I’m halfway through chart 7 of 10. It just feels like I’m slogging through a marsh of endless lace. I bitch and I moan as I work my way through rows that get longer and longer.
I’m purposefully neglecting the We Call Them Pirates hat. I’m knitting the lining and working with sport weight yarn on size 2.5mm needles just make my hands hurt, which leads to more bitching and moaning. I’m just about done with that part, but now I need to tack down the lining stitch by stitch to the back of the hat. Blech!
While those two projects are giving me fits, I’ve been savoring every round of the Pomatomus socks. I don’t work on it often, as I like to save it for those rare occasions when I feel I deserve a treat. I finished the first sock, and I know that the second sock would breeze by if I gave myself half a chance.
As I work my way back and forth between these projects, I plan and dream of future projects. I think of the Forest Path Stole that’s in my future and I wonder just how much enjoyment I’ll really get out of it. The entrelac seems tedious, but the end product is truly lovely. I visit the KAL blog often to read about how others are doing and I am so tempted to just break my one shawl rule and cast on. I’m already late joining the party as is.
For my next sock project I have been browsing the book Knitting On The Road by Nancy Bush. The pattern that has caught my eye the most is the Traveler’s Socks. They first grabbed me when I saw them on Grumperina’s blog and they’re one of the reasons why I bought the book in the first place.
I’m not sure if it’s because the book and Grumperina both have done them in shades of pink, but for some reason I now seem to think that this sock should only be done in pink. The problem there is I am not a pink person. I have some lovely blue yarn that I really adore, but I cannot see it or any other colour as a Traveler Sock. So there’s a big brick wall when it comes to this gorgeous pattern.
So I’ve been browsing the incomparable Cookie A.’s other available patterns and dreaming of her unavailable patterns. Have you seen Gothic Spire?! I also ordered a couple of books, which probably won’t get here until after I have completed the sock.
All this has left me feeling extremely restless and apparently very wordy. Maybe it’s time for one of those rare moments with the Pomatomus sock.
