Was surfing around the blogs today, avoiding housework and stuff 😉 Bliss had a link to Knitti-Me’s Yarny Olympics. I had a good giggle at that one 🙂
Becky has knit the cutest chicken!! May have to try and get that pattern book!
Not much else going on. I ordered “The Knitters Handy Book of Patterns” back on August 10. I wish it would hurry up and get here! I need inspiration, I’m becoming stalled on my current projects. I’m not enjoying the Making Waves socks as much as I enjoyed the Cloverleafs. They flew off the needles, because I really had fun knitting them, but the Waves are taking much longer.

I’m just not getting enough time to knit 🙁
And I really have to do something about getting stuck into sewing those silly dance costumes, too. As I was sick most of last week, and out all day yesterday, I really had to catch up on housework today. If I could have anything in the world, I think it’d be a housekeeper 😉
But I did get some knitting done.

I’m doing the heel decreases now, then I’m on the home straight! Except for sock number 2.
Later in the day, we headed out for Em’s dancing again, as she had one more number to perform.

She won it 🙂

Another entire day spent at a dance competition – but what a successful day. Em competed in 12 sections, won 7 firsts, 3 seconds and a third, and only had one dance not place! We go back tomorrow evenng for one more dance.
And the new dance with the new costume? It was one of the ones that she won 🙂

I’ve had to start DH’s sweater again. Gauge issues, surprise, surprise.
Jo Sharp Silkroad DK knits up at 20sts and 30 rows over 4″ on 4mm needles. Fine. The pattern calls for 22sts and 30 rows over 4″ on 4mm needles with the same yarn. The pattern stitch is rib like, but isn’t a true rib.
Row 1: Knit
Row 2: P9, K1tbl.
I cannot get gauge. So I swatched again, changing Row 1 to K9, P1, and I seem to be getting gauge on 3.75mm needles. I was down to 3.5mm needles on the original pattern, and it was still too big on stitch gauge, and way too small on row gauge. That 1 twisted knit stitch is not enough to draw the gauge in by 2 stitches in 4″.
Or I have gauge issues 🙂

Okay, really feeling much better now!
Not a lot of knitting done this week – not a lot of anything done, apart from sleeping and tv watching, but I thought I’d bring you all up to date on my current wip’s.
Multidirectional scarf. I started this on Sunday, thinking that it would be nice easy knitting while recuperating. I wasn’t aware that I wouldn’t be doing anything at all! Anyway, it’s really soft, squishy, cheap, acrylic yarn, but it felt nice. And it was being sold out at $1.60 a ball! There is no stitch definition, it’s all floofy stuff, and the multidirectional stuff isn’t really showing up well 🙁

I haven’t touched DH’s sweater, but here’s what ‘m up to.

I’m having heaps of trouble with the gauge. Can’t get it right, no matter what. My DH is not a small man, and the sweater seems gigantic! It’s not photographing well, presumably because of the colour. Here’s a close up of the colour.

My Making Waves sock still looks exactly as it did last time.
So now we’re all up to date on what I haven’t been doing, LOL 🙂