Why I LOVE 3-day weekends

I was SUPER productive this weekend. Not only did I get my chores all done (dishes, laundry, bed making, cat grooming), but I knit up a storm. It was awesome. On Saturday morning I walked to my favorite local coffee shop, got a bagel and my favorite drink (soy vanilla latte), plugged the iPod into my ears (to catch up on some podcasts) and made myself stay till I’d finished the grey tubes of boredom, AKA my brother’s Tech Guy socks. I didn’t do the duplicate stitch while I was there, but I took small bits of time throughout the rest of the weekend to get that all stitched up and the ends all weaved in. Then I threw them into the washer and then the dryer on high. I would never wash my own hand knit socks this way, but I need to to know they’ll survive cause there’s no way I’m going to convince my brother to treat them delicately. They survived beautifully, and got super soft. If it weren’t for the fact that they’re like 5 sizes too big for my feet, I might be tempted to keep them Luckily I bought yarn to make another pair for myself some day. (I actually bought yarn to make 3 pairs so my dad, brother and I could all be matchy matchy. Cause I thought at the time that it’d be fun, not thinking about the endless amounts of grey stockinette that it would entail.)

The next project I picked up was my August RSC kit. The lace cuff of these anklets needs to be knit and then blocked before moving on to the rest of the cuff. I didn’t feel like getting out the iron (it was super hot this weekend) so I wet blocked the cuff and pinned it out to let it dry. I haven’t ever blocked anything resembling lace before, so that was fun. I think I’m going to like this pattern.

I went back to the coffee shop on Sunday morning and got settled in for another podcast’s worth of knitting. This time, I started a pair of socks for my grandma, Summer Dreams in Bamboozle “Circus”. The pattern as written seemed to be coming out pretty large, so I ended up frogging it and will be starting over on larger needles, but with less stitches. We’ll see how that works out.

The biggest project I picked up this weekend was my UnGranny Smith cardigan. I started this sweater some time last year, around July, I believe. I finished the back, and half of one of the front pieces, and then I got to a point in the directions where I was confused. It’s been sitting in its bag for almost a year now, but I got it out this weekend, figured out where I was and what needed to happen, and I finished that front piece. Yay! I don’t know if I was able to figure it out because I just needed some time, or because my knitting understanding has improved so much in the last year (which I truly believe it has). In any case, I’m ready to cast on the second half of the front anytime now

Why can’t all weekends be three days long?

P.S. I wrote this post on Monday night, but haven’t had a chance to upload the photos and stick them into the post until today. Whoops!