Another post with no pictures, but there will be tomorrow, promise.
I didn’t finish the cardigan last night, there just wasn’t time. But I’ve just about finished it today, good enough for me. I realized that I’ve been knitting for seven or eight years and I’ve never made anything that buttons up, never. So I made my first button band today. With some help from the stitch guide from the subscribers section of the Interweave site, it was pretty easy and my button holes and buttons line up almost perfect and it only took two tries. Now all I have to do is bind off the button band and sew up the sleeves and I’m done!
Poor Mariah has fallen by the wayside since I’ve been working on the cardi but I should get back to it later. I slammed my hand in a drawer while doing dishes yesterday (I’m such a klutz) so I have a knot on it and knitting is just slightly painful so I’ve been trying to take it easy. Mariah makes it hurt really bad, the cardigan is tolerable.
I bought some yarn Monday night to crochet a hat and crocheting (is that a word?) is nearly impossible. The hand pain sucks but it should be gone in a couple days.
I never mentioned that I’ve started a blog to keep track of the books I read this year, right here. And the design bug has bitten again, so I’m fleshing out a redesign for this site and making lots of icons. This takes time from knitting but that is time for the hand to heal, which means I can knit more later, so it all works out in the end.
