So I haven’t blogged much about it but I’ve been working on Lady E for quite some time. It’s been that red-headed stepchild of a wip I consider working on and then go nahhhh… I think I’ll start a new pair of socks. At first you know I was oh so excited by the project and I was my usual ocd pain in the ass self. Obsessing over swatching and which needle size to go with etc. I’m not sure I was correct in picking 7′s but I thought the other fabrics were too hole-y. So then I started it and slowly but surely became rapidly sort of bored with it. Oh I liked it well enough, it wasn’t painful to knit, but it seemed so freaking slow. I kept promising myself that if I did 2 rows of squares a week it would get done in time for when I can wear it and there would be no stress. Every weekend I said that and then I just continued to knit on my socks or wicked or whatever else I was working on. However in the interest of my sanity I decided I had to finish it. So I decided I was only allowed to work on fixing my socks that need new heels and Lady E and while it feels like a black hole I know its grown a bit. So I decided that I should have my own knitting olympics style event, Finish lady E by the end of the weekend. I’ve got the next two amelia peabody books purchased at audible. I have nothing pressing other than the minimum of hausfrauerie so I am going to attempt this feat. It’s Thursday surely I can do it. Currently I have 40″-41″, it has to be 70″ according to the pattern. That’s only 7.5″ a day I can do that as long as nothing gets in my way! The gold medal will be to finish the knitting, edging and the fringe. The silver medal will be just to finish the knitting. Bronze will be to come within 5″ of finishing. The prizes are yet to be determined. I’m thinking a blocking board for gold, blocking wires for silver and a skein of sock yarn for bronze. In light of this I should hurry up and go knit!
Those are good prizes. Of course, if you get the gold, you get all three. Right?