No unraveling here this week but no real knitting progress either. This is (still) sock number 1 of my Disco Superfly socks. It’s all good but I find it interesting that I brought another skein of sock yarn with me to New York City to start a new pair in anticipation of finishing these on our trip. The reality? I didn’t knit a single stitch. In fact, I never even took them out of my bag! I spent my time on the train reading and really didn’t have any down time while in the city. Sure, it would have been cool to knit in Central Park or on the subway, but I was only carrying a very small cross body bag while we traipsed around and there wasn’t room for my knitting in that bag. If I was being honest about my habits I could have predicted this but a knitter is nothing if not hopeful and we always want to have a back up project.

The same goes for reading, honestly, which is why I love my kindle. I thought I’d finish The Great Believers on our trip and if I was carrying real books I’d have brought a back up. Or two. With my kindle that’s never a concern since I’ve generally got my maximum allowed number of check outs from Overdrive at all times. I did finish The Great Believers right after we got back and I’m now reading When They Call You a Terrorist, which is as heartbreaking and powerful as you might expect.

And that’s it for me this week. I’ll be sharing this post over at Kat’s to join with my fellow unravelers but I still want to know . . .  what are you knitting and reading right now?

Today, sadly, I have actual unraveling. Well. Let me clarify . . . there is unraveling to do. I haven’t actually done it yet but . . . see for yourself:

My finished Stopover 2.0

At first glance, all appears to be fine. But wait. Take a look at that upper left.

Here. I’ve circled it for you. Damn.

Let’s flip it over and see if that was just one repeat out of wack.

Nope. The entire frigging thing is off.

And it just gets worse.

Sigh.

When I was knitting I had one row where things were a little weird. The decreases didn’t work out but I counted when I finished and I had the correct number of stitches. I looked at the color work and thought it looked fine so I just kept going. I was so close to finishing and I wanted to be done. It wasn’t until I blocked it that I saw the errors and once seen, well, they cannot be unseen.

I’ll be fixing it at some point but not right away because deadline knitting.

Reading, thankfully, is going much better than knitting, at least in terms of forward progress. This week I finished One Day in December and The Red Address Book. Next up? The Dakota Winters.

What are you knitting and reading this week? Be sure and hop over to Kat’s to see what our fellow unravelers have been doing.

P.S. Thank you all for your lovely comments yesterday. I promise I have no intention of discontinuing the blog!

 

 

 

 

Happy Wednesday! Happy Hump Day! And, best of all Happy Spring!

In other happy news, my Stopover 2.0 is mostly finished. I just have to close up the underarms, weave in the ends, and block it. The irony of finishing a super warm sweater just in time for spring isn’t lost on me. Also pictured are my current socks, a gorgeous rainbow of stripes from Knitterly Things. I’ve had a bunch of meetings lately so these beauties are chugging right along.

On the reading front, I recently finished My Sister the Serial Killer and I’m poised to start One Day in December. I’ll do a complete reading update soon.

To see what everyone else is reading and knitting be sure and visit Kat today.

I was hoping to have a finished Stopover to show you today. Alas, the photo you see does not look very different from the last one I showed you. It is, in fact, different though.

The body is longer.

Do you know how I got the body to be longer?

Wait.

Do you know why the body is longer?

Because I was on Ravelry updating the details on this sweater and I went back on the blog to check out the one I made 3 years ago and right there, in my own words, it said:

I also added a couple of inches to the length.

Guess what I didn’t do this time? And yes, I had already attached the sleeves and knit about an inch and a half.

So.

Rip back.

Knit two more inches on the body.

Reattach sleeves.

Move forward.

I’ve still got another inch of the shoulders before I start the decreases for the yoke and the colorwork.

It’s all good, though, because I love it and it will be finished and worn very soon. I hope.

I am reading The Museum of Modern Love and I’m enjoying it tremendously. I predict that I will be finished with the book before I am finished with the sweater.

That’s just how things roll around here.

If you want to see what everyone else is reading and knitting this week be sure and check out Kat’s blog today.