2 hours+ transportation = five minutes of actual talking. My feet
still hurt from all the walking.
I had to go down to the
Summerfest grounds to go meet my boss, get my information, and day pass. I'm working at the Pitch's/Miss Katie's Diner booth. It'll be fun but i'm worried that it's going to be murder to get down there every day (not to mention getting home late at night without getting stabbed). It doesn't help that i haven't ever
been to
Summerfest, and if i have been and just don't remember, then it was when i was around ten, so that doesn't really count. It took me forever to figure out how to get IN the dang place. bah. But it wasn't that bad and everybody seems nice AND they don't care about my tattoo.
and the long bus rides gave me some time to work on this:
- here and there cables scarf - norah gaughan (scarf style, interweave press) - I'm working it exactly the same as the pattern, except that i exchanged the 100% merino for some good ol' 100% acrylic. Honestly, i don't care that much. The yarn is lush and is easy to work with. I wasn't exactly sure that it
was acrylic until i read the label (i thought it was some wool blend). Plus i got it dirt cheap. At least six skeins of the same yummy brown came together in a giant garbage bag (the size of two small children really) full of yarn and i only had to pay two dollars for the whole thing at an estate sale. I was extremely happy (i mean who wouldn't be?!) but i think it made my mom cry a little cry.
I actually started this scarf at least a year ago in the same yarn, and got halfway done. But i was so busy with school and such that i didn't have any time to work on it. So it languished. and....languished. By the time i recovered it from the wreckage that is my room, i had no idea what was going on with it. So i decided that it would just be easier to start over. And that's cool with me because i'll just have fun knitting.
Happily i re-cast on, and worked some rows. It's a wonderful pattern and the repeats/cables are easy and quick to memorize (i could do them in my sleep). Then something went wrong. I frogged. I happily re-re-cast on, worked some rows, and whilst humming, worked some
more rows. Then, again, something went wrong. I frogged frazzledly. I not-so-happily re-re-re-cast on. Finally the scarf started to work out. I feel so embarrased about getting my ass kicked by a mere "scarf". After almost ten years of knitting, you'd think i would be able to tackle the puny project known as the "scarf".
Oh, hubris.
I think it's the knitting gods' way of smacking me upside the head for abandoning a perfectly good (and might i mention very pretty and well made) scarf in the middle and starting over.
P.S. Perhaps finding shorter straight US 7 needles is in order. Accidentially poking the person sitting next to me on the bus wasn't the greatest situation to be in.
P.P.S. It seems that the "Sportlon - "for the shetland look" - 100% DuPont Sayelle - Wintuk Orlon Acrylic - 2 ply" by Lion Brand that i'm using is apparently either really old or really obscure. I'm banking on the former, considering that i got it from an estate sale at some old lady's house.
