In Which the Pirate Forces Herself to be Good.

I’ve been carrying the second Stripey Striped Sock with me almost wherever I go, but almost never working on it. However, I’m not allowing myself to cast on for any new socks until I finish this one. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Rien. I have ten stripes completed and 42 to go (if I count the heel as three stripes, which I am, even though it’s not striped, because it will take longer than two stripes). Last night I put two stripes on while I was waiting for bread to rise, and I’ll do another stripe or two on my lunch break today. It’s not the greatest traveling sock ever, but it’s what I have and so I will work on it. I am determined. I will not start any new socks until this one is done.

In fact, I have a plan to refrain from starting any new projects until all my current projects are done, excepting the Pink One’s Sweater, because that’s not really a new project so much as it is the other half of the Sweaters for Twin Niecelets project, and that’s one of the things that I’m on a deadline for. The twins are expected in the end of March, now. I’d better hurry.

The other night I took out all my sock yarns under the pretense of airing out the tote and moving the bag of cedar shavings around. I don’t expect the cedar to really keep any bugs away, but it does make the yarn smell nice. Just looking at the pile of yarn was enough to give me inspiration and motivation to get going on the works in progress. I really want to start something new!

“Starting something new” is one reason I’m really enjoying working on the hexagon blanket. If I concentrate, I can work up a hexagon in just half an hour. Each new hex feels a little bit like starting a new project, but then I get to watch the blanket grow by leaps and bounds. There are 23 hexagons done, 16 to go, and then an edging which will probably be made up of a few stripes of single crochet. I don’t think I’ll use all seven colours; that might be overkill. We’ll see when I get to that point.

The Purple One’s Sweater has just a little more of the body to knit, and then two lace panels to work up. It goes quickly when I sit down to work on it, but so far I think the best knitting time I’ve gotten on this project was on an Amtrak. Maybe I need to take another train ride so I can get it done faster…