Adjustments

These last two weeks have gone by fast as I have been adjusting. Adjusting to my new job, adjusting to daylight savings time; (I just got used to Pacific time!) the only constant is change. There has been knitting, but it hasn't been going quickly, so there isn't much to show.


 I finished the back of Lewis last Sunday and immediately cast on the front. I was knitting away at the 10 inches of front in flat, plain stockinette and was over halfway finished. Then, on Thursday, I took a good hard look at it. Some of the stitches were loose from where I had apparently dropped them and picked them up again. About 5 smack-dab in the middle looked as though I had twisted them. I may have told myself it would even out in blocking if these errors had been on the back of the sweater, but the front? So I ripped all 8.5 inches and started again. I hate flat stockinette and I hate knitting with the Itata. It looks lovely but it is a pain. It's so splitty, slippery, and inelastic. It loves to knot on itself, so I have a huge tangle because I'm alternating two skeins. The bit I frogged is a huge, crimped tangle and I haven't had the heart to mess with it, so I clipped it from the rest of the cakes and re-wound and carried on. For all the annoyance, I'm so glad I restarted. The front looks so much better. I'm devoting today to attempt to get up to the lace pattern so that knitting it will be fun again.


The Leyburn socks are also slow going. I only work on them in the morning before work for about 15 minutes and perhaps a scattered 10-15 minutes of break time during the day. I'm one repeat away from the heel turn so I'll try to power through that today.




The past two Saturdays have been devoted to day trips, which has also reduced my knitting time (but I love it). Last Saturday we drove 410 East to Mt. Baker - Snoqualmie Forest and hiked on the Snoquera Falls trail.  It was a little rough for the first hike of the season (so many switchbacks, constant uphill) but the sun was shining, the falls were beautiful, and the views were majestic.

Yesterday saw the return of the rain, so we opted for a journey that was more car-oriented and set out to explore Whidbey Island. After a short ferry ride from Mukilteo to Clintonville, we explored Ebey's Landing, where we saw a Bald Eagle and watched the ferry come in from Port Townsend.

Then to Admiralty Head Lighthouse / Camp Casey

Then all the way up to Deception Pass, where we crossed over the bridge and back to the mainland in Anacortes.



All in all, a beautiful day to enjoy exploring more of Puget Sound and we can't wait to go back north and explore the San Juan islands.