Lookie what I made!
And you thought I'd forgotten how...
Ain’t it purdy, y’all?
Details: Noro Silk Garden in colorway 264. 8×8 inches. Moss-stitch border, center square in reverse stockinette with adapted heart pattern in stockinette (almost) centered in it.
Of course, if you turn it over, the center square is in stockinette and the heart is in reverse stockinette. Potato, potahto.
The square is for a blanket and I’ll be making another one ASAP, which in this case is probably tomorrow morning.
I started this one around 9 a.m. and finished it at 11:30, and only had to frog back an inch or so once, at the three-inch mark. I was doing the heart in a moss stitch and didn’t like the way it was coming out, ’cause you couldn’t make out the pattern at all that way, so I ripped back and did it as you see above. It looks much better now, trust me.
It was good to get back to knitting again.
I didn’t think anyone else had been paying much attention to my knitting hiatus, or had noticed it at all, but last night the BC13-minus-one-day’s dad suggested I might use part of my night off to, ahem, knit. He seemed to think it had been a long time and I might enjoy it for a change. (He was right.)
And this morning, the BC13-minus-one-day got up before I finished the square and did a noticeable doubletake, then said, with all the shock a teen is capable of, “You’re knitting!” Like it was this amazing, miraculous thing.
I answered, “Yeah, I’m knitting. Is that a problem?” and he said, “No, I’m glad you’re knitting again. You’ve got your hobby back.”
Ah, out of the mouths of no-longer-babes.
Anyway, the best thing about it is that my left hand didn’t hurt at all while I was knitting, even though it hurts other times, so maybe the act of knitting will be therapeutic. It’s a theory I plan to explore in the immediate future.
Yay!
Beautiful.
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