busy, busy, busy...getting at most a couple rows knitting done a day.

So if I'm not actually knitting, at least I can dream about knitting. Which I did, the other night. I dreamed I was knitting a scarf, out of cream-colored wool, and it was in an odd stitch pattern - a sort of lace with garter st panels. I didn't write it down after waking up - I usually don't do that, my dreams never seem that compelling to me - but then when I lay down to sleep last night, it popped back into my head.

I figured out the st pattern and then decided to get up and write it down so I could try working it up. It might come out ugly, I don't know. But here's the best interpretation of what I was knitting in my dream:

cast on a multiple of 6 sts plus 2 "edge sts"
2 rows garter st

k 1 row (RS)
p 1 row (WS)
k1 *k3, yo, slip 1 k2tog psso, yo* repeat to last st, k1
p1 row
k1 row.

then start again with the 2 rows garter st.

This should lead to a pattern that "alternates" facing the WS and the RS, if I'm interpreting it correctly. That was what I was knitting in my dream - and it was what I thought, in my dream, was so cool about the scarf - that the stitch pattern reversed from being stockinette to reverse stockinette every repeat.

I think I have some cream colored woolease I originally bought for socks kicking around, or failing that, I know I have some alpaca blend in cream (but in my dream the yarn was definitely a smooth yarn, and the alpaca I have is kind of fuzzy and rough).

The other interesting thing is that in my almost-asleep mind I figured out the decreases correctly (as I have it written above; decreasing 2 sts) and at first when I wrote it down (when awake) I thought "No, that's wrong - that's decreasing too many stitches". But later I realized I had been right.

I wonder what it means when your subconscious is better at getting patterns right than your conscious mind is?

Yes, I am going to try knitting this pattern up - I'm curious to see if it looks like what I dreamed. It might be really ugly, in which case I can frog it after a couple repeats - but I might stick with it, even if it's ugly, just for the fun of having something I dreamed made real.