Remember a while back when I said I was going to knit the Santa Cruz cap? Then I changed to Interlude and finally decided on the Snowdrop Beret? I got a whole pattern repeat of Snowdrop done last weekend. Didn't have much knitting time this week, at least not much knitting time for knitting that required any sort of brain function. It's very much been a K2, P2 or garter stitch kind of week, mentally. Here's proof of that:
One night this past week I decided I'd work a couple rounds of the Chemo Cap just to be making progress on it. So I did. I got up to Round 13, which requires a cable needle that I'd put away, so I set the cap aside until today. Today I knit three or four more rounds and finished the pattern repeat. When I sat back to admire my work, I realized what was wrong.
I had knit seven rounds FROM THE SANTA CRUZ PATTERN on my Snowdrop Beret .
So I frogged an inch of hat. Now I'm ensconced in my comfy chair with a mug of hot Sleepytime tea, watching Ben-Hur on TCM. If I'm lucky, I'll be able to make up the ground I lost. The recipient of the chemo cap is probably a month into chemo at this point. I need to get this finished before she a) finishes chemo and b) regrows her hair!!! This hat needs to get with the program and STOP STRUGGLING TO NOT BE KNIT!!!!! Bad hat!! No biscuit!! (On the other hand, I have completely lost my sulky, crabby attitude about this project since it started misbehaving. I am now completely determined to kick its soft blue butt and show it who is boss!!)
I would just switch over to the Tri-Cities Socks (aka Pittsworth by SpillyJane), but I'm ready to start a 49 round repeat cable pattern. If I haven't the brain power for Snowdrop, I certainly haven't got enough brain left for Pittsworth.*sigh*
One thing I can say about Spa yarn by Caron. It holds up well to repeated knitting and frogging. I'm getting used to the splittiness of it and managing to not split many stitches now. I'm also using some rather pointy Bry-Flex needles too, which I'm sure helps.
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