NaCraMaMo: Week 1
October seems to be chugging along at a rapid pace and I feel like I’m having a hard time keeping up. The cold I am apparently developing is not helping, since it is wearing me out before I manage to get anything done. Thankfully, I have managed to accomplish a little bit of something each day in order to keep up with my NaCraMaMo goals.
Day 1: I knit on a toe-up sock for my husband and I spun a little.
Day 2: I knit a little more on the sock, but then ended up frogging it completely after having some issues with the heel increases. For some reason my brain keeps forgetting how to do M1 increases even though, deep down, I know how they should be done.
Day 3: I did a bit more spinning, but didn’t have time for any knitting. I didn’t take a picture because my work still looks much like it did in the last photo, only with a little more on the spindle and a slightly smaller pile of fiber.
Day 4: I started one of my many Christmas gifts; a scarf for my husband’s uncle. It’s a lovely cabled number with an eight row repeat that I’ve managed to memorize. I work on it for one pattern repeat at a time and then put it down to give myself a break. Fortunately each repeat is a little more than an inch’s worth of progress, so I am actually getting something done.
Today, day number five, marks the start of week number two. I plan to work on the scarf a bit more and may also cast on something more simplistic to work on while I watch House tonight. I am hoping that I can cast off this bug and have a much more productive week.
For me, knitting always seems to move so slowly. Even when I’m concentrating on the project. I wish there was a way to make it seem progress faster.
It’s a gorgeous pattern. it’s going to be a lovely scarf
Sometimes I find that knitting goes slowly as well, especially when it’s something that I have to hunker down and concentrate on. I find that once I get the hang of what I’m doing and don’t have to expend all of my attention on it, things tend to go faster. It also helps if I do other things at the same time (watch tv, listen to music, poke my husband with my needles, etc.).