Category: Work

22 to go

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I’ve often said that knitting saves me. I think that it just did. In one week, a week that lasted at least a year, I began and completed this pair of fingerless mitts. I finished the first one on Sunday night, and cast on for the second before I went to bed that night.



Each day this week I came home planning to knit a little. Some days I did a few rows or a couple of inches; other days I just stared at the television. On Thursday, which was my weekday off, I made good progress in between the errands and appointments.


Yesterday was a particularly long and difficult day at work, and when I came home I had some supper, fell asleep on the couch, and wisely hauled myself off to bed at 7:30pm. No knitting, not last night!

So when I woke up this morning after a record-breaking 11 hours of sleep, I was happy to to have the time (and the energy!) to knit. All that I had left were the last rows of lace rib and the thumb, and then I could soak the mitts in Soak and watch them dry on my little porch.



Pattern: Delicato Mitts by Anne Hanson
Yarn: Fearless Fibers Superwash Merino sock yarn, “Blue Rain”
Needles: 2.5mm/US 1.5 bamboo dpn’s
Modifications: Not one

I really enjoyed having this little project to look forward to all week. The insanity of the store faded a little bit every time I picked up the needles. Now that they’re finished, I wish it would get cold enough to wear them!

I’ll need another comforting knit to help soothe me through the rest of the month. Only three weeks to go, but we’re all tired and tense, and there’s nothing to do but keep on. I’ve said it several (or too many) times already, but I do think that this is the most grueling August in the thirteen Augusts I’ve spent at the bookstore.

While other people are glancing at the calendar with a little sadness, I am counting the days until Labor Day. Then I’ll start a big project, or really clean my home, or go to the ocean, or excavate my desk, or visit my family, or get a haircut, or go to Target, or just breathe.