… Like a band of Gypsies we go down the highway.
Linda, my office manager, and I drove up to Raleigh today for half a week of continuing education. We left town about 1 in the afternoon and arrived at the hotel about 4:30. We settled in and hung out until we were able to pick up our registration packets at 6. After a not very good dinner, which I complained about and got half off, we went in search for a Walmart or similar type store, because Linda left her phone charger behind last weekend and needs to get a replacement. We were unsuccessful in locating a suitable source, and returned to the hotel. We were almost there when I realized that we should have looked it up before we left. A store has been located and directions have been printed, so we might make another attempt tomorrow. Or she might just leave the phone on her car charger for a while.
While I mostly spun at SAFF, some knitting progress has been made.
I finished the first Maine Morning Mitt except for the thumb, and decided to knit the the main part of the second one before adding thumbs to both. The yarn has a bit more random VM than I would like, but the colors are fabulous and they are looking great.
The Bee Fields (which needs a better backdrop to show up the pattern) is enjoying a short time out as of this afternoon. I got through the hive section and everything looked good. I tried twice to work the first row of the swarm section and suddenly things have gotten wonky. Either I inadvertently messed up the end of the hive section or I’m not doing the first row of the next section right. In either case, I wasn’t accomplishing anything but raising my own frustration level. I tinked back (again) to the start of the first row, and will try to figure out where I went wrong when I’m in a better mindset. And preferably not in a moving car.
For the rest of the ride (I had the rare, for me, occasion of being a passenger and therefore able to knit on the road) I worked on my Thermal. I’ve got about 7 inches of the body, and come to the conclusion that my row gauge is even more off than I had thought. Since I’m working even at the moment, all I have to do is work to length, but I will have to modify my shaping pretty significantly. I’ve still got another 6 inches of working even, and I’m crunching the numbers a little at a time.
Now it’s off to bed so I’m fresh to sit through lectures and talks all day tomorrow. Thermal will be my mindless knitting project to work on if I don’t have to take notes (most of the speakers provide very complete lecture notes).
