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No pictures in this post... so weird. I usually don't blog without at least one photo. Oh well, it can't be helped. I really have nothing that I can show. I've got another gift knit done - yay! Making good progress one another one - double yay! And then there's the bad knitting.



The knitting the takes place in the land of denial. It has to do with a certain knitted item for the hand. I knit the right hand object back in September. Then got busy with other knitting that needed to be finished by a certain date that was before this left hand needed to be finished. So last week I finally got around to the left had. And a little voice in the back of my mind told me to pull out the right hand and compare when I had a few inches done. But I told that voice to shut up and continued to knit. And knit. And the voice kept coming back, and at one point I thought, "Hmm, maybe I should take the other one out, just to make sure they're looking alike" and then I would forget or move on to something else... Anyway, I got most of the way done, and actually pulled the right hand out and put it down next to the left one. And stared at them not wanting to believe what I was seeing.



My eyes were obviously messing with me, I mean, with my eyesight being what it is they are only decorative. But no. The right hand was obviously knit at a looser gauge. Noticeably looser. That's just not good. And the real problem? I like the look of the left mitten which means going back and ripping out the actually completed object and not the only partially completed object. SIGH. Did I mention that once upon a time, back in September, I knit most of the right hand on a bigger needle before deciding it was going to be too big and ripped it to redo it? Yeah, that means by the time I'm done with this project, if I'm lucky and there are no more mishaps, I will have knit the freaking pattern a total of FOUR times. Enough to have TWO pairs and not just one. I hate knitter's denial.



I just started a new sock for me though. I had started a pair last week but I'm not loving so they'll be ripped and the pretty yarn will be put aside until after the holidays. The yarn I'm currently using is more of the Knit Picks Imagination yarn, this time in the "Seven Dwarves" colorway. It's very autumnal, and makes me think of all the colors you see in a big Thanksgiving cornucopia. So these will be my Thanksgiving socks. They may not be done by the holiday itself, but it's the thought that counts. I've decided that I need a pair of socks for every holiday. I've already got Christmas and Halloween, these will take care of Thanksgiving. I've got the yarn for St. Patrick's day. My first ever pair of socks - the pair that I made without really knowing anything about sock yarn and needles - is technically a pair for Valentine's Day, but I may do a different pair. I've got yarn that could work for Easter too. Now I just have to get some for the 4th of July. And actually knit all of them up.



Had enough of my mindless dribble yet? Sorry, it was a really long weekend and it's back to Lake effect snow warnings every day around here. Trying to prepare for imminent Jersey invasion. Can't wait.