KttB and Hasty Update
I'm going to hurry and post this while I can. My DSL connection (grrr earthlink!) has been spotty lately. Wednesday it flickered out for a few hours in the evening before reappearing just in time for my 8-10 pm Latin Prose Comp online class meeting (whew!). Thursday and Friday I couldn't access the Internet once all day. So Thursday night I finally called tech support. After nearly two and a half hours on the phone with a series of four different technicians, one of whom actually spoke with a mostly understandable accent, nothing had changed. The last technician said they would run tests on the phone line, or something like that, and call me back in four hours. Which would have been, oh, a quarter to midnight. On a school night. So he scheduled to call me back Friday night instead. But when I got the call on Friday, it was Ms. Automated Voice speaking. She told me to press 1 to connect to a technician...then Mr. Automated Voice simply told me "There are no technicians available to take your call at this time" and hung up. Um, excuse me Earthlink, but did your automated voice family just call me only to tell me that they couldn't talk to me?! So I never heard back on the results of said line tests. Saturday morning the internet worked again, but Saturday night it came and went. It's been on and off so far today as well. Sigh! I really don't want to take the chance of it going out suddenly between 8 and 10 next Wednesday. Online class, you know! And trying to keep up with the class discussion on a backup dial-up connection is crazy - too slow for our very talkative class! Nor do I want to be at school until 10 pm just to be sure of a sound connection.
Back to that "hurrying" thing. I am, at the least, still here and well and have just been unable to do much posting. :-) But I have done some knitting, and also some audio-Bibling.
KttB: (I think this was on Thursday, after the frustrating evening of tech non-support) 2 Samuel 11-15
Knitting: A bit on Jolie (including some progress over the weekend):
These are the front panels, with only one pinned out so you can see how much the stockinette edges curl. :-) I'm past the decreasing part of the waist shaping and about an inch from starting the increases to work back up toward the bust width. What are the chances I'll finish this sweater before I run out of days cool enough to wear it?
Also I'm now past the heel on my blue sock!
The first two, sine flash, are much truer to color. In mostly stockinette stitch, on US 3 needles and DK weight yarn - the leftovers from my Starburst sweater, which needs matching socks - these are zooming along! I love how this pattern fits my feet, even though, honestly, I'm barely following the pattern. Since it's written for actual sock yarn - fingering weight - I have to adjust the numbers to not end up with a ridiculously huge sock out of this thicker yarn. And that throws everything off when I get to the heel shaping, so I ended up having to rip back a very badly un-centered heel turn and redo it by just sort of guesstimating. Yet it turned out quite nicely! The second sock will probably not come out quite the same, but if it fits, no matter. The numbers may be off but the socks are just plain stockinette anyway so they'll look enough alike for me. Except that the first one will have that odd knot on the toe which the second hopefully won't. Yep, there was an ugly little knot right in the middle of the skein. Hate it when that happens, but I was too lazy at the time to just cut it out and splice the yarn together! I don't think it will really bother me much, since I made sure to work it to the outside of the sock. It'll be unseen inside my shoe most of the time.
Details:
Pattern: Knitty's Widdershins, with various size adjustments, in the no-cable version.
Yarn: Knitpicks Merino Style in Storm
Needles: Clover Bamboo DPNs, US 3, which are rapidly turning a lavenderish shade from the way the dye on the yarn wears off on the needles. It did that when I knit Starburst, too, only I was using plastic Denise Interchangeable needles, then.
Back to that "hurrying" thing. I am, at the least, still here and well and have just been unable to do much posting. :-) But I have done some knitting, and also some audio-Bibling.
KttB: (I think this was on Thursday, after the frustrating evening of tech non-support) 2 Samuel 11-15
Knitting: A bit on Jolie (including some progress over the weekend):
These are the front panels, with only one pinned out so you can see how much the stockinette edges curl. :-) I'm past the decreasing part of the waist shaping and about an inch from starting the increases to work back up toward the bust width. What are the chances I'll finish this sweater before I run out of days cool enough to wear it?
Also I'm now past the heel on my blue sock!
The first two, sine flash, are much truer to color. In mostly stockinette stitch, on US 3 needles and DK weight yarn - the leftovers from my Starburst sweater, which needs matching socks - these are zooming along! I love how this pattern fits my feet, even though, honestly, I'm barely following the pattern. Since it's written for actual sock yarn - fingering weight - I have to adjust the numbers to not end up with a ridiculously huge sock out of this thicker yarn. And that throws everything off when I get to the heel shaping, so I ended up having to rip back a very badly un-centered heel turn and redo it by just sort of guesstimating. Yet it turned out quite nicely! The second sock will probably not come out quite the same, but if it fits, no matter. The numbers may be off but the socks are just plain stockinette anyway so they'll look enough alike for me. Except that the first one will have that odd knot on the toe which the second hopefully won't. Yep, there was an ugly little knot right in the middle of the skein. Hate it when that happens, but I was too lazy at the time to just cut it out and splice the yarn together! I don't think it will really bother me much, since I made sure to work it to the outside of the sock. It'll be unseen inside my shoe most of the time.
Details:
Pattern: Knitty's Widdershins, with various size adjustments, in the no-cable version.
Yarn: Knitpicks Merino Style in Storm
Needles: Clover Bamboo DPNs, US 3, which are rapidly turning a lavenderish shade from the way the dye on the yarn wears off on the needles. It did that when I knit Starburst, too, only I was using plastic Denise Interchangeable needles, then.