Woo HOO!

Sweater For Baby Tess,
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I did it! I completed my Baby Jiffy Knit Sweater, aka Sweater for Baby Tess before the end of the Olympics. Yay me!

Progress!

I sat down and read and re-read the instructions for the baby sweater and it finally clicked in my little brain. So now I have two sleeves and a baby shrug, lol. Seriously though, it is starting to look like a sweater :) Not convinced I will finish in time, but at least it's looking better!

Help!

Calling all knitters! I'm stuck. I have never knit a sweater before, nor have I ever had to use stitch holders. I am to this bit in the pattern and I just can't wrap my brain around it:

Next Row: K25, put these sts on stitch holder for front, K30 (sleeve; divide remaining sts onto 3 stitch holders – 49 for back, next 30 sts for other sleeve, and remaining 25 sts for other front.



Sleeves: Work in Stockinette st for 4 inches, after last P row, decrease 6 sts evenly across row (every 5th st). Work remaining 24 sts in K1, P1 ribbing for 1 ½ inches. Bind off loosely.
Pick up stitches for other sleeve from holder and knit same as first sleeve.

Did the bit I italicized, then stuffed the rest of the stitches on stitch holders. So... Does this mean I am to only knit on the first sleeve now? Then cast off the sleeve and go on to the next sleeve, leaving the middle bit untouched?? Then how the heck do I pick up the stitches for the next sleeve? Honestly the words just fry my brain, I'm too visual for this lol.

Update

Woot! I am to the point in the pattern where I need to start placing stitches on stitch holders. Stitch holders?! Missed that part of the instructions. I own two holders, I need 4. Sigh. I shall be stopping on the way home from work today. I have momentum going, can't stop now ;)

By the way, I switched patterns after the third time I frogged the first pattern. By the third time I came up with one stitch too few I decided that the stated stitch count had to be wrong. So I went and looked at similar patterns, found one that used the same size needles and the same weight yarn and I was off again. And guess what? The first few rows on the new pattern were the same as the old pattern, just one stitch fewer ;)

I don't know what you are talking about...

Ravelympics? What's that? Halfway mark? Don't know a thing...

Err. Yeah. Not a single stitch has been knit. First there were the two frog puddles opening night, then there was a tummy bug that made me not want to move again, ever, let alone knit. And then there was real life and yikes! So this weekend is catch up time. But frankly, I knew that time was going to be an issue and chose a project that would reflect that. So I still believe I have a chance to finish ;)

Err.

I used to love Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake novels. Then they started turning more into bad erotica than paranormal mysteries. The last book, Skin Trade, was better. But I have to say, if you want to read Flirt, do what I did and get it from the library. It's a two hour read, easy. To call it a novel is a huge exaggeration. Really, it should have been released as a novella in a collection.

It wasn't bad. But it wasn't either. And it reads as a slightly regurgitated version of The Laughing Corpse (not my favorite early book anyway) crossed with a college girls' night out. And while it only had one sex scene, surprise, surprise! Anita now has a new man for her harem. Joy.

Sad thing is, I will be first in line to put Bullet on hold at the library. But no longer first in line at the bookstore...

Oh. My. God

So far the Ravelympics have not been a good time for me. Aside from the frogging issues of day 1, day 2 was spent feeling sicker than a dog and absolutely no knitting was accomplished. Blech.

And today I have to work (double blech!), so there may not be much knitting accomplished today either. And really there shouldn't be any knitting since today is my 19th wedding anniversary and my dear hubby's birthday and should be spent with him :)

Let the games begin!

And the frogging... I have frogged my 5 Hour Baby Sweater twice already. At the moment my needles are absolutely barren and I am tempted to pick up my sock instead. But I would probably mess that up as well at this point. My head just isn't in the game :(

I'm set for the Ravelympics,

are you? This year I am going to try and knit a baby sweater for a friend that is due next month. I hope she gets some use out of it before the weather gets too warm, lol. I'm also going to try to finish my Monkey sock that has been on my needles for well over a year now lol. I do need to go look through my needles and see what sizes I have,the baby sweater pattern calls for size 10.5 needles and I am pretty darned sure that mine broke somewhere along the way. I keep forgetting to look for new ones when we go to Walmart. *Sigh* Now it's only a week 'til the Olympics, I guess I had better remember soon, lol.

*Sigh*

Farmville and Fishville are addicting. Until a few days ago I'd never wanted anything to do with Facebook. But then I read a blog post about Farmville and got curious, lol.

But I need more neighbors! Please won't you be my neighbor? ;)