Yarnification

That afghan/throw/whatever that I’m making? Needs to be finished by Friday. I am on row 73 of 91 (plus four rounds of border, and you know a round of border on an afghan takes as long as six rows). That’s if I don’t get to row 91 and decide that my row gauge was off and that it needs another dozen rows, which might happen.

I have hopes that it’ll be done. I did 13 rows yesterday and, knock wood, my wrists are not bothering me, so if I can keep up this pace it’ll get finished in plenty of time.

That’ll teach me to start on an afghan at the end of summer when deadlines are involved. Really, who in their right mind decides to start an afghan at the end of August? Once I had more than a row or two done I couldn’t stand to work on it because it was so hot. Fortunately the weather’s cooled off enough that it’s nice to have a lapful of blanket.

Everything else is still on hold until I get this done.

This summer I was supposed to learn to knit on dpns so I can make myself some fingerless (or mostly-fingerless) gloves before the weather gets cold because this arthritis thing is The Suck and it’s chilly in the office here at work. Something like Fetching from Knitty, except those cables are intimidating. The whole thing is intimidating, really. I have not yet succeeded in making anything other than a mess with the dpns, and I’m starting to have doubts as to whether I possess the sort of physical coordination required to knit well.

Hmm. I now have sporadic access to a high-speed internet connection, so maybe I’ll take my USB drive with me and download a bunch of stuff from that one knitting help site with all the videos. I’ve been there before but it takes a long time to download over my dialup connection.