Do-over

Well, remember that infinity scarf I mentioned the other day, the one I was knitting with Malabrigo yarn? I finished it last night, or two nights ago, and while it would have been ok to leave as-is (or, as-was, more appropriately), I decided it wouldn't do that fabulous yarn justice for me to have something I was ambivalent about. So, project was frogged, yarn was re-wound (and my goodness, how happy I am to have figured out that I can make center-pull balls with yarn I wind up! Before I was just winding it in a straight-up ball, and working with the outside yarn. Doesn't work as well that way. Center pull? I loves me a center-pull ball). Trying the scarf thing again, but with different yarn. I'll have to contemplate a bit more what I want that Malabrigo to become. I think I found something, but it'll have to wait a bit.

So tonight, I got down to the business of starting a new one. Except, here it is, hours later, and I'm still trying to figure it out. I've cast on and undone and re-cast on and knit a few rows and undone again, multiple times. I can't figure out the right needles, and decided to try a different pattern. And then the pattern I decided on had me cast on what I consider an insane number of stitches, but I didn't really realize this until I had already gone a row or two. Hopefully I'm settled down now, and things will finally progress. I'm anxious to have it done, because the yarn I'm using now is an alpaca yarn. And let me tell you. Alpaca is my new favorite animal. Goodness. If you've never felt alpaca yarn, be my friend and come over and I'll let you pet it. It's delicious. So, assuming that when I join the stitches (so I can knit in the round - because boy oh boy, I have a great dislike for stitching up a project) I don't twist it, which has happened once or twice tonight as well, I should be off and running. And I should hopefully be able to get this thing done by the end of the week.

Of course, there's also still the other blanket to finish. Plus the baby one. Plus a couple scarves promised to a couple of people. (But I'm trying to stay simple on those, so they're not so time-consuming.)

And, oh yeah, did I mention, those five graduate classes I have. Right, those.

Thankfully, the worst part of any project for me is the beginning. And it's especially bad when it requires casting on 100-200 stitches, because having to redo that many is time-consuming. Casting on 15 or 20? No biggie. That's the trade-off between knitting in the round versus doing seaming afterward. Ah, well. At least once this one is going, everything I have going is pretty simple. So that's good.

Now, back to it.