Mikknit

This means that at lunchtime today, the week is half over. Right? This has already been a long week for no good reason, so I’m not looking forward to 3 more days until the weekend. I’ve got a cold, so that’s part of the problem, and our bathroom is torn apart so I can’t take a shower (ugh)… so I guess there are a couple good reasons why the week is seeming so long.

But at least I can still loaf on the couch and knit, even if I don’t have the energy to do anything else!

I’ve been working on socks, since I signed up for Socktoberfest. In thinking about what I wanted to do for Socktoberfest - did I want to just continue my general sock-knitting habits, did I want to make Christmas gift socks, socks for me, or did I want to have a goal of knitting X number of socks? - I decided that I’m going to knit socks for the kids. I’ve got a ton of leftover sock yarn and it’s in amounts sufficient to make little-kid socks, for sure. But in order to do that, I want to have a clean slate at the beginning of October - I want to finish the socks I’m knitting for myself. Made some good progress on that front in the last couple days - I bound of sock #1 on Monday night and promptly started sock #2. I worked on that a bit yesterday, and I should be able to get to the heel today if I escape to the coffee shop while my mother-in-law is here to play with the kids. We’ll see if that happens or if I hide in the sewing room instead and finish up some of the stuff cluttering my desk.

Here are the socks as they are now:

Lana Grossa Meilenweit Fun - color 83, I think (I will edit this if I track down the ball band) on size 0 circulars, 72 stitches. I made those pants, too, by the way.

I also finished Grace’s sweater and it turned out well, but I don’t care for the buttonholes - they distort the shape of the buttonhole band in an unattractive way. No way am I going to redo them, though! I started this on Friday, Sept 8 and finished it on Sunday, Sept 24. I did have to start over a couple times, since I originally was doing it all in one piece but discarded that idea, then I cast on too few stitches for the size I wanted (I was sort of basing this on the child’s size 4 cardigan sweater in The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns) - turns out it’d have been just fine with fewer stitches, it’s quite big on her.

But cute though!

And without the distracting cuteness:

Guess who chose the ladybug buttons? Heh.

And now off to retrieve that sweater from my Mom’s car…