All Thumbs! (and fingers too...)

Just a follow up to my last blog.  Judging by appearances I haven't knit a thing.

I'm still working on Fulmar... sweater for life; I'm beginning to think!  I completely finished the front but I didn't take a photo since it looks almost just like the last photo I posted at the end of March. 

I've also been working, just a little at a time on another plain pair of socks. The color is called Earth and the yarn is made by Cherry Tree Hill.  Earth is such an understatement!  Although the yarn is dark, in the sunlight it gleams with hidden color... purple, moss green, light grey, dark grey, and brown.  I don't know if all of that shows in this photo, but I tried. 

I have been working on a pair of mittens off and on too.  They have been discouraging because after I completed the first one, I discovered that the instructions from Dale of Norway really didn't work for their Tiur yarn.

The mittens are designed to "split" open and reveal a pair of fingerless gloves inside.

The instructions for the mittens are VERY brief and expect the knitter to "just know" what to do.  After I completed the fingerless glove in one of the mittens, I discovered that it was twice as big in circumference as the mitten and would only fit inside with great difficulty!  Well, that's what I get for casting on the glove part while I watched an interesting movie without thinking much about what I was doing.  Of course it was too big... although the instructions said to use the same size needle, stranded knitting is always tighter than stockinette, so of course the glove was too big!!!  So dumb!

After spending the better part of a week knitting the inner glove, and then ripping it all out and figuring which needle size I needed to make it snug enough, but not too tight in the fingers... I have this to show for it!

  I'm finally on "final approach" of finishing!  It's hard to believe that I've lost the better part of two weeks messing around with my recalcitrant mittens and  the NO KNITTING ALLOWED ZONE of jury duty this week.

I still can't believe that I had to spend 2 full days in the court room listening to endless questioning as juror after juror was questioned and dismissed.  I don't know how they expected me to concentrate on all those repetitive conversations without my knitting!!!!  And what do they think anyway.... that violently tending knitters might stab the accused in a fit of pettiness.  I actually felt more like stabbing someone after being deprived of my knitting for 16+ hours.  At the end of that whole process, given about 100 potential jurors, there were 3 of us left unselected, so we were finally all dismissed.  Thank goodness.

Comments

[Lorraine]

Carolyn- No knitting-? That's crazy.

Aside from the socks, the mitts and Fulmar are definite long term (career) projects.

[Carin]

I would have asked for a couple of pencils and then would have tried to explain how they got tangled with some yarn.

You have my sympathy.

I love the sock yarn's colourway.

[Helena West]

What do you mean No Knitting Allowed zone? Anyway the mittens that you made were lovely. I like the color itself.

[Sonya]

No knitting? That's just torture. Glad you're on track with the mittens. They look wonderful! I admire your fortitude on Fulmar too. I love cables and I still find Fulmar completely daunting.

[Claire]

Your knitting is awesome... I admire your COURAGE to knit stranded projects like the mittens. And I agree the Norwegian patterns are frstrating with their "just know" fly by night instructions.