It’s amazing what a little time spent on airplanes does for my knitting productivity:
Before heading to the DFW Fiber Fest – which was wonderful, by the way! I hope to be invited back for an encore visit! – I had completed just a short bit of the first sock. By the time my flight landed in Dallas, I has finished the heel turn and started the gussets. The “Unraveling Ravelry” presentation on Friday night saw the completion of the gussets. And the flight home? First sock done, second sock done through the leg. You could practically see the fabric growing. Oh, I’d forgotten the near-instant gratification of plain stockinette and self-patterning sock yarn.
Since then? I’ve only knit the heel flap and heel turn of the second sock. Nope, I don’t get all that much knitting time at home; too many other distractions vie for my time.
Which leads me to wonder if I’ll complete my Swirl before Stitches South, as I’d hoped. Working backwards, let’s see:
- Stitches starts on the 19th.
- So I’m flying on the 18th.
- So I'm packing on the 17th. At the latest, the Swirl has to be dry and ready to ship out by the evening of the 17th, or the morning of the 18th if I want to push it.
- So I have to block the Swirl on the... let’s see... 15th. (Yes, around here it can take a sweater two days to dry at this time of year.)
- So I have to seam the Swirl on the 14th. Oh, I suppose I ought to weave in the ends, too.
- So I have to finish knitting on the 13th. Hmm. Friday the 13th. Is that a bad omen?
- So that leaves me with less than a week to knit 15 welts.
Huh. I better get knitting.
Tagged: WIP, trip report, socks.
i was wondering where the toes were and then i read "pedicure" socks. derp. you must get regular pedis!
» JudyG
Regular pedis? Me? Nah. The socks are for my mom – she requested them, thinking they’d be great socks to wear with sandals.
» JC
Are you at the point in your Swirl when all the welts are getting shorter though? If not, you soon will be and then it'll just fly. But then, you know this since this is not your first Swirl. Looking forward to photo of the final product.
» Sarah JS