Monthly Archive: December 2014

After several hours of unsuccessfully attempting sleep, I now sit in the family room. My spot on the couch. Knitting. Laptop. Fireplace. Buffy and/or Angel. Dragons. A cat or two. The usual.

This is getting very tiresome. (See what I did there?) I have things I need to do tomorrow today, reasons I need to be functional. I’m guessing that ‘not sleeping’ is not a stop on the road for success.

On a related note, do I have any artistically inclined friends out there? I see a great need for a ‘Hello Insomnia’ (a la Kitty).

Since my Hitofude is on timeout, I’ve started a new sweater which calls for 1,470 yards of yarn. I am using a yarn that comes in 110-yard units.

SO MANY LOOSE ENDS.

Well, since the sleeping thing clearly isn’t going to happen, I might as well be up and knitting. Unfortunately, my Hitofude is in timeout for non-compliance issues. So, this leaves me with that favorite task of all knitters: swatching. But, since I’ll be working on a sweater, I figure I should actually make sure it’s going to end up the right size. As an added bonus, if there’s any knitting that will put me to sleep, it’s got to be swatching.

So, as you may remember, I’ve been working on the Hitofude cardigan. Things were tooling along, and, on Sunday, I got to the second and third tricky bits: Undoing the provisional cast-ons (2), and performing three-needle bind-offs for the sleeves. (The first tricky bit was the provisional cast-ons themselves.)

So, yeah. Finished the sleeves, and read the part of the pattern where it says how many stitches I should have: 290.  (more…)