My swatch lied to me...

...so now I rip. I finished the back of my cardi in record time, then decided to wash & block it to see if there were any "surprises". It blocked to 30"x35"!! Now I am not a slight woman, but 12" of ease on a sweater seems a bit much, and 35" of length on a 5'3" frame is just wasting good yarn. I re-did a gauge swatch and WASHED it this time. This swatch is telling me to go down two needle sizes from my previous attempt, plus I think I'm going to knock 10 rows off the length. Eh, it's all about the process.

I decided if I don't cave and buy them for myself, I'm going to ask Santa for a set of Options needles for Christmas. After using my Addi Turbos so much lately, my Denise needles are an absolute bear to use; the cables are too inflexible!

S-t-r-e-s-s

Yesterday I went with Sir B as he had yet another kidney stone removed (he seems to get about one a year). I know it's a simple procedure, but they have to put him to sleep for it, and that really unsettles me. Plus being with him in a hospital reminds me of when my Mom died. I feel bad for him because I think he'd be a lot more calm before the surgery if I wasn't such a wreck. He kept telling me to start working on my knitting, which I finally did and it really calmed me down. Thank goodness for mindless stockinette stitch knitting! I don't think I could've concentrated on an involved pattern for anything.

The surgery went swimmingly, the only thing being Sir B waking up "a bit" disoriented (that's what the doctor said, followed by, "He's a big guy and hard to hold down". Later Sir B remembered he woke up punching at people. Good thing he didn't clock anyone!)

I'm halfway done with the back of the sweater....although I may have to shorten it as I fear it may be way too long for me, but I don't want to frog it so I'll just adjust this piece when I'm done and compensate for the changes when I do the front pieces.

I can't decide!!

Man, have I had a short knitting attention span lately. When the cold weather hit yesterday (55 frickin degrees), I decided I must. have. a. cardigan. So now I'm swatching for a cardigan, the socks discarded indefinitely. The shawl is also in the discarded pile. And Sir B is starting to whine about me promising (last year) to make him another cardigan!

Another reason I lost interest in the socks...I just picked up a copy of Knitting Circles Around Socks, and it is so cool! Now I want to frog and make them like that. Sigh. How do I take a project as small and simple as freakin socks and turn it into an odyssey? Seriously?

Boo. Hoo.

Well, the sock I was making? Frog pond material. Way too big, even for my clown feet. I am restarting it in a smaller size...there is hope yet.

And the Cancun vaction? Dunzo. Cancelled. We are going to Las Vegas for five days instead (which is OK, we are both very excited about it). Loooong story about the cancelled Cancun trip, but we are tentatively planning to rebook it for next fall. Now we are trying to decide what shows to see in Vegas...well, not decide, more like narrow down the long list. We are also thinking of going on a Grand Canyon tour. See, who needs Cancun? *sniff*

Photo lazy

I have been meaning to take a photo of my sock-in-progress. Really. But I've been super-lazy about it. I am about halfway done with the first sock, which puzzles me because I'm not used to knitting a project that takes less than four months to complete! I almost forgot they were out there.

Are you a fan of the movie "Mary Poppins"? Have you seen this?