Slow Down

I had expected to have the first Leyburn sock done & a second in progress by today. Instead, I've spend the past few days unable to knit due to tendonitis. At first, I thought it was run-of-the-mill carpal tunnel and bought a wrist brace. My wrists felt nice the next day, but knitting still caused me a lot of pain. So then I tried everything I could find online: carpal tunnel stretches, knitting continental, yoga, soaking in a bath, ice. Yesterday, at last, I could knit again if I made sure to keep good posture in the hard-backed kitchen chairs and took frequent stretch breaks. I've had some aches and pains before, but nothing has benched me for several days in a row before. It has me thinking a lot about mindfulness and being kind to my body.


And of course that didn't help me catch up in my previously-mentioned yarn disparity. I just have to keep plugging away.




I've started a swatch for a sweater:

The yarn is Araucania Itata Solid in the imaginatively named "2025" colorway. I have an embarrassing amount of this yarn in various colorways picked up from Webs clearance after it was discontinued a few years ago. It was another purchase in a long personal history of buying sock yarn with the intention of making socks from it and later discovering that it will be terrible for socks. On a related note:

Here is my Leyburn. I've got 19g left in that ball to knit until I can move on to sock #2. I'm hoping I get gauge on the swatch so I can relieve what will be some massive Second Sock Syndrome.