I had decreased the sole stitch count to 37 (from 39) when I worked the gusset, and I decreased the instep to 37 by working a set of decreases when I changed from the ripple pattern to plain stocking knit—I was on the dark brown stripe then—and the decreases are almost impossible to see—even for me, and I know where to look!
I worked late last night (a full 8 hour day—instead of my usually part time day of 6.5 hours—but it seemed a lot longer.)
Traveling at rush hour make a big difference—normally my commute is 45 to 50 minutes (door to door)—but at rush hour—it was 70 minutes. A full 20 minutes longer. A long commute by most measures.
Later, the trains are crowded—and things are different—more pan handlers—last night it was a horn (trumpet) player. It’s times like that that make me wish I had an I-pod and head phones to block out external noise.
But I’ve had head phones, and pods and buds, and all sorts of things that go in or over my ears; I started 30 years ago with a walkman—and graduated to a disk man—and I’ve tried then all--and hate them all.
So I’ve avoided buying an I-pod—and every once in a while I am subject to being bombarded with music not of my choice.
I had planned to go to Tuesday knit night in LIC—but it was already late when I got home—and I sat down to just rest my eyes for a moment—I sat where the setting sun was shining on my face—since—the theory was—I wouldn’t actually fall asleep if I was facing the sun.
An hour later, it was too late to head out—so I stayed in, and after dinner worked on the faded clown barf cotton scarf.

I started the scarf with only increases (till it was wide enough) –exactly how I started the first (unsuccessful version) so I have a built in landmark for working the end—with out running out of yarn.
If I don’t waste half the evening taking a late nap—(which left me sleepless till midnight!) again tonight—I’ll make some real progress on this.
1 comment:
The knitting as you frog (frogging as you knit?) photo is fantastic!
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