It’s been a week coloured by knitterly disaster and woe – then it improved…

Disaster:

I lost a sock. Not just any sock. I lost the completed, beautiful first sock of the pink, orange and purple entrelac socks I was making 😥

This is the last picture I have of my lost baby….

Gone!

“What happened?”, I hear you ask….

It was on the train. I was starting the second sock and, while rummaging and getting settled, I put the completed sock on my lap. The train was running very late, I was happily cracking on with the second sock. Then I got up and got off the train. My lovely sock must have fallen on the floor as I got off.

I have asked at all the stations, logged lost property reports and visited every lost property office (there are 3 it may have been sent to) no luck.

I even posted my dilemma on Twitter – that was kinda fun – my post was retweeted by Southeastern Rail Company and several rail interest groups – I even started to get messages of “sympathy for my loss” from sock lovers in the USA and the “Sock Council”

There isn’t enough yarn to make 2 more socks in that yarn and I can’t face starting over after that much Entrelac 🙁

Woe:

To cheer myself up I though I’d start a sweater I bought at ally Pally in October.

This pattern…Alabaster

Huge amount of detail in the cable placements 🙂

In Leaf  – a scrumptious green colour.

Merino and baby alpaca DK

There was a big problem…Alabaster is knit in Aran weight yarn – I had been given DK yarn at the show – Oh No! So I won’t be casting that on this week 🙁

I really ticked off because I had relied on the staff at the Yarn Stories stand to sort out and bag up the yarn for me rather than doing it myself (which I’d normally do). It was horrendously busy at the show so I can see how a mistake could be made. I’ve written to Yarn Stories and asked if they will exchange the yarn for the correct weight – I’ll let you know how that goes – this may not end up being a disaster of the magnitude of the lost sock 🙄

Success:

Amidst all this gnashing and wailing, I did manage to have a success – I was very pleased with my completed Travelling Cable hat!

Crazed knitter in successful hat ! (That jumper in from Banana Republic – not one of mine BTW)

I have quite a small head (dimensions, not ego!!) so I have the rib turned up quite a bit.

Here’s the side and back view…

Side…

Back…

And here it is without me gooning around in it…

Yum!

I did make a pompom with all the yarn I had left  over from the 200g (which wasn’t a lot!) but I didn’t like the way the pompom bounced around when I was wearing it. It did look sweet though…

Pompom loveliness

I also tried wearing the hat as a “slouchy hat” but it is aran yarn, knit on small needles to make it dense, heavy and warm.

Slouchy is erm …”unsuccessful”! 😳

CONEHEAD!

Some Fun:

So did I manage to cast on anything?

As I appear to be cursed this week I thought, “what is so big I can’t loose it on the train and simple enough it can’t go wrong?”

I turned to the Lion Brand Natural wool I snaffled in New York…

This yarn (beloved by Kitty)…

Straight off the sheep…

It’s basically cleaned up fleece with a thin thread around it to hold it together – to me it says “Mega Scarf”!

I played around on 25mm and 20mm needles with moss stitch and seed stitch. Moss stitch seemed messy and 25mm too loose. 20mm seed stitch it was.

Yep, I like that pattern…

I know that doesn’t sound like a lot of difference in needle size, but when you see them together it clearly is. (The largest glass needle in the vase is 6mm btw) –  check out the size of that yarn cake too!

Mega Knitting

I cast on 15 stitches yesterday, slipping the first stitch to make a neat edging.

This won’t take very long – on the 2nd ball already!

Woosh, that’s fast!

I’d better do that Completed Knit Report for the hat and get on with finishing the Mega Scarf…it’s snowing outside – I’ll need it!