Well, I certainly had many plans for this Bank Holiday but very few of them were fulfilled. Apart from kung fu on Saturday, I’ve been in the mood for a quiet weekend and, more importantly, knitting. Now, this is quite a change from the past few weeks where I haven’t been knitting all that much because I have to be a) in the mood to knit and b) be awake enough not to have an attention span akin to that of a goldfish.
The latter was very important with regard to my most recent WiP which involved Moss Stitch and knowing whether I was knitting or purling at the start of a row. When knitting was done when the brain was off in lala land, the result was a realisation that a horrible mistake was made several rows back and rows were needing to be frogged. I actually can’t remember how many times this happened.
Yesterday, though, my brain was in gear and I was in that state of mind where I wanted to do something creative but not horrendously taxing on the brain. I finished my own Le Slouch (made with Artesano Aran) some time around 3am this morning and was ecstatic that I finally made it.
Le Slouch in progress – some time a few weeks (and several frogging incidents) ago.
Finished Le Slouch
Me wearing my Le Slouch
Now that my head is nice and warm, I’ve now moved onto my next project: a pair of toe up socks with a short row heel using Mirasol Hacho. The magic cast-on took me a while to get my head around and then 6 attempts later I finally got the toe of the sock the way I wanted it.
I reckon I’m somewhere between half and a third of a way to turning the heel (probably the latter amount to be honest), which isn’t bad going for an afternoon’s work. I’m hoping that I’ll twig the short row heel as quickly. I guess we’ll see in a few days.
