You know those days where you can’t seem to get anything done because of all the things that need to get done? Yeah.
I did finish another CounterPain square.
That’s two and a bit this school year! At this rate, I’ll be finished by middle school.
It’s still too hot most afternoons to pick Ellie up on the bikes. So I put the CounterPain in the car for sitting and waiting knitting.
It was one of my better ideas.
Amber, this is as far as I have gotten with the Beekeeper’s Quilt:
Five little hexipuffs.
That’s as far as I’m ever going to get. I had no business with any other epic projects until the epic project I’ve already started is finished! If anyone can use my little guys, I’d be happy to send them along. I don’t want them to feel lonely and unfulfilled.
The CounterPain is making slow but steady progress.
The CounterPain in its cubby. The yarn is next door.
I’ve got one more square to make another strip of ten. And then – I’ll have to count to be sure – but I think I only need twenty more squares. So I’ve been thinking.
I’m still using the desk in the kitchen even though my office is clean.
I’ve been thinking that next year the Squares will be my take-along project (I usually take a bear or a rabbit for the shop). That should help me get the squares finished. And then all that’s left is the trim. I’ve been thinking a lot about the trim lately.
Must be all that light at the end of the tunnel giving me hope.
When I was working on the starter dish cloths, I discovered that I spend a lot of time waiting. I wait for things to boil. I wait for cookies to come out of the oven (my oven has issues, I can’t leave them alone). I wait for everyone to be ready to get in the car. I wait for Ellie to get her shirt on the right way ’round. And pick up her toys. And for everyone to stop rolling around in the Big Bed so that I can make it up. I wait the eternity it takes for Ellie to eat six green beans.
This year’s dish cloth was great for waiting because it was easy to tell where I had left off. I kept one on the needles in the hall and another on the kitchen table. Once the starters were finished, I didn’t want to spend all that time waiting without anything to keep me company. So I relocated the CounterPain to a smaller basket and moved it from the kitchen counter (where I never touch it) to the kitchen table.
Genius! The red paper clip is holding my place in the pattern.
I had to get a new project to live in the hall. Because I don’t have nearly enough to do. What I do have is a lot of sock yarn ends.
Which explains my instant attraction to The Beekeeper’s Quilt.
I had the clever little pattern memorized after one repetition and I am excited about the finished throw! It will be Very Blue. I have made quite a few blue socks.
I’ve got four honeycombs and a CounterPain Square finished. If you don’t consider that I need three hundred and something of the honeycombs and you do consider that I only need about 30 more CounterPain Squares, my incremental knitting is going quite well!
PS Dish Rag Tag Signups open on Monday.
Twos into tens and tens into twenties because four make a block.
Mom says I crochet like I knit. Whatever that means.
Don’t worry, I have a lot of help.
Hi, Mamie.
I love you, Hulu.
CounterPain Squares are going well. Or they were until a lightning strike took out the DSL modem, the gate, the dryer, the telephone (the actual phone, a cordless so the base was plugged in, not the phone line), threw a bunch of circuit breakers and knocked a nice hole in the siding on its way out of the house. That was Completely Crazy and Unnerving. The internets are back, so depending on my Hulu queue, square knitting may resume in the morning.
Bones is working well as CounterPain Company.
I am trying two new things with the blog.
There, that’s better.
Knitting resolution for 2010: complete my knitting resolution for 2009. I’m going to pick a TV show (preferably one that won’t get canceled midseason), and the only thing I’m allowed to knit while watching it is CounterPain Squares. There is no way this plan can fail.
And now I am halfway too.
William Henry grows bored with the CounterPain.
Thank you, Mary Esther.
Prize winner in a moment.
The Dish Rag Tag Pack is past the halfway mark, but it’s still anybody’s game!
I’m only 1/3 of the way to my goal.
I’m headed to Mary Esther* this weekend. With car and front porch knitting, I might just catch up to the pack. Let’s have a little Dish Rag contest to celebrate!
In the comments for this post, provide a link or the name (or book title or whatever) to your personal favorite dish cloth pattern. If you’ve made it 50 times and love it more than ever, tell me. If you’ve had it in your Ravelry queue for years but haven’t gotten around to actually knitting it yet, I’d like to know that too. I will provide a dish cloth related prize to one lucky winner (chosen by random number).
One comment per person, please, and you don’t have to be racing to enter or win. I’ll close the comments and pick a winner sometime on Tuesday.
*That’s the best entry I can find by searching. I wish I had thought more about categories and tags five years ago when I started this thing.