birthday knitting is making pretty good progress. I knit on the bus home last night, and managed to do something weird on a bead row (not sure if made an accidental yarn over or didn’t finish the stitch). so I tried fixing the stitch and gave up and ripped the needles out and tried to get back to the row before the beads. (note: frogging/picking up free stitches on beads & lace is not a fun thing to do. I don’t recommend my method). managed to get it put back on, but the stitches were rather twisted and split and not completely picked up, so I knit an extra row right before the beads (note to self, remember this for the second one). reknit the bead row this morning on the bus, and it went fine. got to the 3rd needle on the 2nd row of beading and realized I’d made the same mistake - except this time I was checking the needles before continuing so I could fix things right away. so all is good, and I made it about a third of the way into the lace. 5 1/2 more rows of lace and I get to start the foot. this should be an adventure - my first pair of top down socks (I should go read the pattern so I know what sort of heel I’m getting myself into).
ok, now for the preview… this was after 3 repeats on the cuff last night, just before that bottom row of beads out.
(clicking on it will take you to more pics)
the color is to be a surprise, hence the black & white. I think it looks kind of cool.
anywho, so I’m about to leave work, and I knit a bit during lunch. just have the last two lacy rows and then I get to start the heel. woohoo! hopefully it doesn’t go too bad.
