Picking Up

Another Wednesday, another Yarn Along. I had the highest hopes of being finished with my Abalone this week, but a very special occasion got in the way of my knitting time. That, and the fact that I'm up to the bit where I have to pick up a million stitches for the band. Or it might be a zillion. The pattern has been very relaxed about how many stitches I'm actually supposed to be working with. Even how many I cast on was optional, based on a quick calculation using my gauge swatch and the distance between my nipples. Yes. I sat there looking down at the tape measure in front of me wondering how that was meant to translate into anything (22cm if you're interested) until I finally realised, literally as I was lying in bed one night, that the measurement was supposed to be taken from one nipple and around my back to the other. D'oh. 


Anyway, the shoulders have been Kitchener-stitched together, the whole thing fits nicely, and now we just await the energy for the great stitch pick-up. I'm ready to wear it now so I'd better get on with it.


Instead, as one does, I've cast on a new project, a tiny thing on four needles! Not socks, but striped Legwarmies. I've never been enamoured with working on double-pointed needles, and working with the two colours just adds to the tangle. But I persist because I know they'll be super-cute on a pair of super-chubbly-wubbly little legs that turn a year old this week. And it's a great way to use up all the leftover Baby Cashmerino from that cardigan.


Reading this week - birthday books and not much else.


I'm off to see what everyone else is knitting and reading over at the Yarn Along.