Monday 24 November 2014

Sick Day Knitting





Its been about a month of so since my last post. It's been a transitional time for me. I just changed to a new job two weeks ago, and for the past few days I've been fighting off a horrendous bug that's taking a slow and agonizing tour through my tonsils, larynx and sinuses.

But although these things have affected my blogging, they have not affected the actual amount of knitting! 

Normally I like to post about finished projects but this time it's more of a progress report. Originally I was going to blog about these awful fingerless gloves that resemble something a Neanderthal may have fashioned around the same time as the first bone chisel, but it's almost too embarrassing to share. Besides, they have since been banished to the topmost shelf of the coat closet which is my house's version of the Bermuda triangle. Mainly because I have trouble reaching it. 

Let's save that one for a rainy day.

Right now I'm working on a variation of this seed stitch infinity scarf. I had lots of time to work on it this past weekend while restrained to the couch with nothing else to do but pop pain killers and drink tea. It's a super simple and forgiving pattern since it's basically knit one, purl one x 2-3 balls of yarn. So far I've used up the yarn I had so it's only partially done:

  


Yep, pretty much a big grey rectangle. Tne pattern calls for size 17 knitting needles but the biggest I had on hand were 13s. I like how it's turning out but I might make another one using size 17s or maybe even bigger. I'm really into the ultra-chunky knits!

For yarn, nothing too fancy this time. I'm using Bernat Roving which is is mostly acrylic and can be found cheaply at Walmart. One thing I find about the cheaper yarns- you don't have to roll them into a ball. Wnich we know from experience can be a huge time saver. Also it knits up pretty soft and cushy, so I think it was a good choice.

Story time:  I was reluctantly getting my sick carcass ready for work this morning and decided to take a tea to go instead of my usual Nespresso, having found the tea more bearable to swallow Since getting sick. So I fire up the kettle and pour myself a tea in the ceramic travel mug I isually use for coffee. The mug has a rubber heat guard on it but the boiling water made even the rubber part too hot to hold. 

And I thought to myself, "if only I had something else to wrap around this so I could pick it up without giving myself a second degree burn. What am I going to do?"

And then, I remembered my first craftacular accomplishment:

I felt very smug indeed. It was the highlight of my day. Honestly.

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