Slow Knitting

I have not been a very good blog friend lately, so please accept my apologies. I do try to read your posts and comment -- and I enjoy you all so much. My workload this fall just happens to be extra heavy. Things will slow down after winter break and then I will be able to follow everyone more carefully.

Of course, working a lot isn't good for creating, either. I have mostly been working on my sequence knitting scarf:

These are not my usual colors, but they are colors I wear a lot, so I think this will be something I use quite a bit. It's is pretty relaxing -- which is what I need after a long day at school.

I got a lot of knitting done over the last few weeks while watching Stranger Things on Netflix with Keith. It is very cheesy, but entertaining -- and scary at points. Have you watched anything good lately?

The Fourth Time is the Charm -- I Hope

One of the key ideas in Sequence Knitting is that it is supposed to require a minimum of thought: Memorize the sequence and knit. Of course, nothing is that simple in my knitting world. I ripped out the first cast-on because I though (mistakenly) that I had made a mistake. I recast on and then ripped it again because I didn't love the colors. When you are knitting with 800 yards of fingering-weight yarn, you must love the colors!

Then I picked out these two colors from the stash. I've been looking for the right use for the red ball, which was a gift from my daughter.

I was happy with the colors but my stitch count was way off after knitting 8 rows of the 3rd attempt. So I ripped a THIRD time. I'm hoping the fourth time will go better.  As you can see, I put in some stitch markers.

Cecilia of Sequence Knitting holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry (the very definition of super smart, in my book), so maybe what's easy for her isn't so easy for an English major like me!