This is actually Monday's post, because that 8 am class comes awfully early, and the 9 am class comes hard on its heels.

So, what did I do this weekend other than deal with interpersonal sludge that makes me wish I was a hermit?

Well, I pretty much WAS a hermit.

I made cornbread, so I had something to go with the last of the "soup beans."


And I got around to blocking the front and back of the Greek pullover. I wet-block everything that can be wet-blocked. (I used a bit of a sample-size bottle of that "Soak" stuff that I had bought at a quilt shop. Frankly, I'm not sure I see what all the fuss is about. Shampoo works just as well and is a lot cheaper. And the much touted "Aquae" fragrance - oddly enough, I could not smell it.)



The front and back don't look perfectly symmetrical to each other but the armscyes are slightly different - higher in the back - so the sleeves set right. (Or so the pattern says.)

Not to continue to be negative, but I also have to say I fail to see what all the fuss about Rowan kidsilk is about. Oh, it's a fine yarn, but I've worked with more reasonably-priced yarns that I liked much better.

I also worked more on the Snicket socks.



Happily, I figured out a way to do a modification of the twisted stitch on the "uprights" so that I don't have to use the cable needle every row. The cable-cross row on the "uprights" involves holding the first knit stitch to the front, knitting the second stitch through the back of the loop, and then k tbl for the stitch that was on the cable needle. It's a lot easier for me to just "reach behind" the first stitch, knit the second stitch tbl, and then slip the first stitch to the righthand needle, drop off the "old" stitch just knitted, then slip back the first stitch and knit it tbl. It looks the same, is functionally and process-wise the same, and it's a lot faster. (I can't quite figure how to get the other cable crosses - the ones that branch out to make the chicken-wire shapes - to be able to be done that way. Maybe it's not possible. But it's a lot faster to use the cable needle on only 4 rows instead of on 10.)

I also worked on the sleeves for the Greek pullover, but couldn't quite get them done.



I think I'm going to be glad I bought that extra ball of the Kidsilk; I'm rapidly running down on the first ball for each sleeve. And I still have the ties to knit. (2 ties, 40" of i-cord. Oy. I may have to break out a couple episodes of "House" for that - I bought the first-season dvd set; I've gotten hooked on the show recently and wanted to go back and see where it began. I will say I can do without the closeups of lumbar punctures and such, though. Oh, I know they're all staged, they're not real, but that doesn't stop them from totally squicking me out.)